Most recent kernel where this bug did *NOT* occur: don't know. But also happened on F7-test3. Distribution: Fedora (F7) Hardware Environment: This is my setup: CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+, 2.2GHz, FSB 400MHz Mother Board: ATX K7(socket A) ASUS A7V600-X. Chipset: VIA KT600(North-bridge), VIA VT8237(South-bridge). Integrated SoundCard: ADI AD1888 SoundMax 5.1 Memory: GEIL 512MB DDR PC3200 Memory: 2xKingstone 1GB DDR PC3200 Grafic Card AGP-8x nVidia GeForce FX5900XT-DV128, 128MB GDDR Network: PCI Gigabit Ethernet D-LINK DGE-530T. Software Environment: Problem Description: My box locks up after the "Ready." message at the end of the kernel uncompressing and booting proces. Steps to reproduce: Boot F7 CD on my box.
possibly similar to the various reports we've had (mostly from Dell users) at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241249 Try booting with one of.. nohz=off maxcpus=1 hpet=disable clocksource=acpi_pm
none of them did the magic. It doesn't look to me like a clock related issue... the keyboard leds get blocked, look like the kernel is waiting for something with interrupts disabled. maybe a hardware probing problem?
acpi=off ? nolapic ? (Getting desperate)
didn't help either. same behaviour. Is there something else I can do? maybe unplugg some devices?
Raul, Have you had any progress? You can try using manual option when you can control loading each component/driver interactively (it should be such option, most distros provide such install option). Then you can see which one freezes the system and try skipping it (if this is not your boot disk of course :) Then try switching to different VC screens, some of them output various traces and logs (ctrl-alt-f[1 to 12]). Thanks.
(In reply to comment #5) > Raul, > Have you had any progress? You can try using manual option when you can > control > loading each component/driver interactively (it should be such option, most > distros provide such install option). Then you can see which one freezes the > system and try skipping it (if this is not your boot disk of course :) Then > try > switching to different VC screens, some of them output various traces and > logs > (ctrl-alt-f[1 to 12]). > Thanks. no progress here. the lock-up happens after un compressing the kernel, but before the kernel has booted up, and before init is called, so i can't get any trace.
anything interesting if you add earlyprintk=vga to the command line ?
(In reply to comment #7) > anything interesting if you add earlyprintk=vga to the command line ? same bahaviour, no aditional info is printed on screen.
do other distro installation CDs or live CDs (knoppix, grml) have this problem ? grml-small iso is only 60mb size