Serial setup hang with IBM a22m (Re: FC2 test1: install glitches and comments)

[Ricky Ng-Adam]

Hello!

Alan Cox wrote:
>>I know I had a similar problem of half-booting with the 2.6 kernel of 
>>MDK10b2, so this is probably something generalized.  I had been told by 
>>people in MDK forums that this was possibly related to ACPI?
> 
> Mine breaks regardless of ACPI - seems IRQ routing is in general somewhat
> hosed on 2.6.2 in RH. acpi=off pci=usepirqmask might help

Ok, I've just tried installing MDK10-RC1.  This has 2.6.2 instead of 
2.6.2-rc3 of MDK10b2 and I've found the same problem as you have: I can 
only boot the install - the normal boot hang whatever I do (actually, I 
couldn't boot the install until I installed W2K!!).

The whole story here:

http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7947

I'm mentionning it here because I'm guessing that once FC2 goes from 
2.6.1 to 2.6.2, I won't be able to boot FC2...

Maybe something happenned between 2.6.2-rc3 and 2.6.2 that worsened the 
hang-on-reboot??

Thanks,

Ricky