On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 12:09 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > On 1/22/2011 2:53 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > Ok try this > > Remove the 'quiet' add > > > > irqpoll initcall_debug > > > > The first one tries to catch and deal with hangs due to IRQ routing bugs > > in the BIOS etc, the second will print a trace of each function called > > during initialisation. It's not exciting to most people but as part of a > > Fedora bug report it will let the Fedora kernel maintainers see which > > initialiser hung the machine. > > Ok, finally got a moment to try this. Current kernel line is: > > xdriver=vesa nomodeset ide=nodma noapic acpi=off ignore_loglevel > enforcing=0 initcall_debug > > That doesn't give me anything I don't already know or have seen - > it looks up after discovering the main drive and CD. Adding 'irqpoll' > to the line just locks up way earlier in the boot process: > > .... > [ 0.000000] SLUB: Genslabs=13, HWalign=32, Order=0-3, > MinObjects=0, CPUs=2, Nodes=1 > [ 0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation. > [ 0.000000] - RCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is enabled. > [ 0.000000] - RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled. > [ 0.000000] - Verbose stalled-CPUs detection is disabled. > [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:2304 > [ 0.000000] Console: colour VGS+ 80x25 > [ 0.000000] console [tty0] enabled > [ 0.000000] spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > ... and it dies. > > If I try to boot with *just* 'ignore_loglevel irqpoll', same thing, > it dies like above. > > What I don't get is how this dies with FC14 but not with CentOS 5 > ... did they figure out something that the FC developers haven't? > > A Install with basic video? Or what ever the correct verbage is. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines