[FC3] kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 freezes on boot

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Sun Apr 17 04:43:14 UTC 2005


On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 11:36:47PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
 > On 16 Apr 2005, Slava Bizyayev wrote:
 > 
 > > I use kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 on my HP OmniBook XE2 pretty happily.
 > > After updating kernel to kernel-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 I experience a strange
 > > behavior -- in the end of the boot (instead of X-login screen) machine
 > > freezes, and I cannot even get the terminal access with ctrl-alt-F1. Has
 > > someone experienced something similar? What's the work around?
 > 
 > For some reason, when I installed FC3, I got two kernels,
 > one for SMP, the other for uniprocessing.
 > Although I only have one processor,
 > the SMP version was made the default.

You probably have a P4 with hyperthreading.

 > Unless I was quick enough to stop it, the SMP version would
 > run for a while and freeze.  The reset button produced an
 > unclean reboot.  After about three of those, the filesystems
 > were corrupted beyond repair.  I had to reinstall.

bugzilla # ?

		Dave




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