On either 1.9.3 or the minimal 2.0 alpha 4 created in #209 (closed), boot halts with a PAX error: “suspicious general protection fault: 0000 [#1 (closed)} SMP”. Details follow below. It appears that the boot halts when trying to load the hpwdt module, used for the iLO card in the system. To test, I disabled the iLO card, but the module still loads. I also tried the nmi_watchdog=0 boot option and the module still loads and crashes. What would be the best way to blacklist the module when booting from the LiveCD?

Additional error output:

Last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/misc/psaux/dev
Modules: hpdwt(+) mousedev evdev rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib container thermal button processor vfat fat nls_iso8859 isofs nls_base usbmouse usbhid hid usbkbd sr_mod cdrom ehci_hcd pata_acpi ata_generic ata_piix libata uhci_hcd cciss usb_storage usb_libusual usbcore sd_mod scsi_mod cramfs loop

(from redmine: issue id 228, created on 2009-12-24, closed on 2009-12-29)

• Changesets:
  • Revision ce9c551d on 2009-12-24T14:56:28Z:

main/linux-grsec: disable hpwtd

ref #228