Bug 9184 (System_Hault)

Summary:	System Haults at boot
Product:	Platform Specific/Hardware	Reporter:	Madhushan Madawala (madhushan)
Component:	x86-64	Assignee:	Andi Kleen (andi-bz)
Status:	REJECTED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Severity:	blocking
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.18.2	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:

Description Madhushan Madawala 2007-10-18 11:52:20 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.4.1

Distribution: Damn Small Linux

Hardware Environment:
MSI RC410M-L Mother Board, a Pentium D 2.8 Ghz Processor,
Software Environment:

Problem Description:
Fedora core 7 and Ubuntu , open suse or any other distro with kernel 2.6 fail to boot but strangely kernel 2.4 distros boot 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Will require a MSI RC410M-L Mother Board, a Pentium D 2.8 Ghz Processor,NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE grafics card, 1 GB Kingstong DDR 2 RAM, DVD rom drive. 

2. Get the very latest Distro (Used Ferdora 7 or Open Suse 10.2)

3. Boot with live CD or normal installation CD

4. After the kernel uncompresses the system will freeze.

Comment 1 Andi Kleen 2007-10-19 03:22:08 UTC

First please don't assign directly.

And please try with at least 2.6.23. No interest in 2.6.18 here at all.

And then boot with earlyprintk=vga and log the messages on the screen (either
writing down or photographing them)