On Saturday 15 November 2008 05:09:10 pm Martín Marqués wrote: > 2008/11/15 Peter Reed <peterreed@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Saturday 15 November 2008 11:54:32 am Martín Marqués wrote: > >> I just updated my F9 in my laptop (Compaq Presario F756la) and I > >> noticed problems booting the kernel. > >> > >> At first I just thought it hanged at boot time (it freezed during the > >> boot sequence). Then I took of the quite option from grub and saw that > >> it stated booting but at a moment it started to hang (when loading the > >> synaptics driver). But the strangest part is that touching some of the > >> keys of the keyboard (caps lock for example) made the kernel keep > >> booting again, and a few seconds later again a freeze, and so on until > >> it starts the services. At that moment it isn't necesary to keep > >> touching keys. > >> > >> Any thought about what's gooing on the kernel 2.6.27.5-37.fc9.x86_64? > > > > I am having the same problem with a HP Pavilion dv6505us. I turned of the > > rhgb and quiet options in grub and found it seems to be related to the > > touchpad as well although I have an external logitech wireless track ball > > attached that I have to unplug to get it to boot and I have to either > > touch the keyboard or the touchpad to get it to continue to boot. Once > > it gets to the udev section of the boot process I can plug the mouse back > > in and everything seems to work fine. > > I found this in the linux kernel bugzilla: > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11418 > > Put hpet=disable in the kernel command line and see if that works. It > did for me. > > BTW, I have no idea on what hpet is. > > -- > Martín Marqués > select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' > DBA, Programador, Administrador Yes thanks that seems to have fixed the problem. Booted fine. I have no idea what hpet is but it seems to have something to do with amd processor. Peter -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
