2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

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From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 - 4:26 am

Hi there,

   2.6.23-rc1 won't boot on my Asus M6N laptop and the last thing it shows after loading
grub is "No setup signature found...," which, imho, comes from
arch/i386/boot/header.S. I tried printing out the value of setup_sig like so

<snip>
# Setup corrupt somehow...
setup_bad:
        movl    $setup_corrupt, %eax
        calll   puts
        movl    setup_sig, %eax
        calll   puts
        # Fall through...

        .globl  die
        .type   die, @function
die:
</snip>

but didn't have the time to lookup the proper way of printing the value of a variable in asm 
and am pretty sure that the printed value during boot: "1-" is wrong. Config attached.

-- 
Regards/Gru
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2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Tue Jul 24, 4:26 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Xudong Guan, (Thu Jul 26, 8:08 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jul 26, 8:19 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Xudong Guan, (Thu Jul 26, 8:26 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jul 26, 8:43 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Thu Jul 26, 9:30 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Xudong Guan, (Thu Jul 26, 9:36 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Thu Jul 26, 9:59 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Xudong Guan, (Thu Jul 26, 10:09 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jul 26, 11:12 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Thu Jul 26, 6:36 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Jul 26, 9:31 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Chuck Ebbert, (Fri Jul 27, 8:51 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Sun Jul 29, 1:51 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Xudong Guan, (Sun Jul 29, 2:24 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Sun Jul 29, 3:37 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Sun Jul 29, 6:50 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Sun Jul 29, 12:15 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Jul 30, 7:05 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Mon Jul 30, 11:53 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Jul 30, 1:46 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., Borislav Petkov, (Tue Jul 31, 9:38 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Aug 1, 5:41 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found..., H. Peter Anvin, (Wed Aug 1, 7:36 am)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found... SOLVED!, Borislav Petkov, (Wed Aug 1, 10:13 pm)
Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found... SOLVED!, H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Aug 2, 10:41 am)