[Gllug] boot/install errors ... "PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 ..."

[Chris Hutchison]

On 17 Mar 2008, at 21:25, Nix wrote:

> On 17 Mar 2008, Chris Hutchison stated:
>> errors). Rebooted again, hit Alt+F1 and read the following:
>>
>> PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1.c.2
>> PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000 ... [etc]
>> intel_rng: FWH not detected
>> parkbd: no such parport
>
> This is the sort of thing that linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org exists
> for. :)
>
> (Well, that or raise a bug in the kernel bugzilla, but posting on l-k 
> is
> more likely to get a response, especially if you can track the bug
> down a bit more so you can figure out likely people to Cc:. Of course
> things like kernel version, kernel config and so on are crucial. If you
> can reproduce it with a mainstream kernel.org kernel you're more likely
> to get attention. Of course getting all of this is predicated on your
> being able to boot it *somehow*...)
>
> This looks like a PCI/ACPI-related bug to me, so Cc:ing may be
> unnecessary: Linus pays significant attention to bugs like this and if
> you pick a good subject line is fairly likely to make some noise.
> Andrew Morton tends to pay attention, too, not least because *any* ACPI
> or PCI allocation problems seem to break his poor long-suffering Vaio
> laptop sooner rather than later :) )

Many thanks, Nix; I'll mail the problem to linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org 
as you suggest.

I'm able both to boot from Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, and DreamLinux 
LiveCDs and to install them; though with the errors I reported (and a 
bunch more in the syslog file).  Can't boot Knoppix, PCLinuxOS, or 
Sabayon.

Am also able to boot from DesktopBSD and to install it; and don't see 
any errors in the log files (which doesn't mean they aren't there ... 
simply that, if they are there, I'm just not clever enough to spot 
them) which may mean that, since DesktopBSD uses a different kernel, 
you'd undoubtedly be right about it being a kernel issue.  I haven't 
yet had time to play around much with DesktopBSD; but, if it gives me 
no grief, I may well just stick with that and count my blessings that I 
at least still have a working computer :)

cheers

Chris

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Chris Hutchison
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