Preupgrade fc15 - fc16

[luck02]

I've just ran a preupgrade on my box (Supermicro 7046A) and I'm now getting this on boot:

Loading Linux 3.1.9-1.fc16.x86_64 ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
[2.135273] APEI: Can not request iomem region region <00000000bf795eba-00000000bf795ebc> for GARS

It always ran this message but now on reboot it's halting at the message.

Does anyone know of kernel arguments I could pass in to disable the request (based on what I understand this has never worked so presumably there's no impact to disabling the function).

Or if there's some bios setting that would allow the function to succeed.

I'm going to post this in the FC16 support forum as well as the supermicro support forum and if I find anything interesting I'll follow up from there if anyone is interested?

[luck02]

Disregard, it was actually hanging at Starting plymouth daemon.

I ended up just installing fresh.

[hobie7777]

I have the same message :

APEI: Can not request iomem region region <00000000hf795f8a-00000000hf795f8c> for GARs

With kernel 3.1.5-2 it managed to boot, but now with 3.2.1-3 the boot process halts at the message...

Does someone have an idea of what difference between 3.1 and 3.2 may cause the boot halt ?

[luck02]

it's not halting at that message.


It's actually halting elsewhere,

I got this from another support group:

--
I'd be surprised if we actually halted right at that message. I think
it's just that most console output is suppressed by default, this
particular message is KERN_ERR so it is not suppressed, and we hung
somewhere later. Can you boot with "ignore_loglevel" and collect the
entire console output? If you have a previous working kernel still
installed, a corresponding log from it might also be useful.
--

I followed this and discovered that I was halting at:
dracut: Starting plymouth daemon

I can't remember how, but I found a fix for that... But there were 2 or 3 more issues.

i ended up booting into a liveCD, backing up my home directories and then doing a fresh install.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!se...M/jBvQqSzeC10J

YMMV

Good luck

[hobie7777]

luck02,

Thanks for your suggestion. I booted with ignore_loglevel and looked at outputs from the two kernels. Things go wrong with 3.2.1-3 when the nouveau driver is detecting my graphic card, an Nvidia GTX 550 Ti. I am going to look into that as soon as I have more time.

[pstrang]

So is there no solution for this error? I get it during the Install of FC16 and each boot there after. Things work, well I had to run basic video mode during the install process.

I suspect it's trying to load a video mode during the boot. I wonder if I can force a video mode in the grub2 scripts?

[luck02]

I don't have much to say, in my case it was far simpler to just back up my home directory and install a fresh fc16.

If your determined to not do a fresh install I suggest getting a full set of boot logs and submitting them on the appropriate boards.