[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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