01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G84
[GeForce 8600M GT] [10de:0407] (rev a1)
A very ordinary card, somewhat older.
> What does F18 say in syslog /var/log/messages regarding any 'conflict's
> in address space during initialization of the linux kernel?
Not sure. Conflict comes up in the context of the fb and nouveau, which has always been a
message with this video adapter. These are excerpts with the word conflict in them:
Apr 25 20:20:07 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x000000000000efa0-0x000000000000efbf SystemIO
conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f
SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you
should use it instead of the native driver
• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000053f
SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you
should use it instead of the native driver
• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
I can't tell how important this is.
Eek! The BIOS-e820 shows a severely fragmented memory map (lines 6 through 81).
Which BIOS manufacturer, and what is the date? You are booting (U)EFI, right?
This strikes me as either a GRUB problem, or a dracut/initramfs
problem, because a 3.9.x kernel and initramfs built on f18 boots OK. So I don't know
that this is even really a kernel problem.
I'd bet on GRUB.
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