[Fedora] Re: FC14 Installation Hangs

[Terry Polzin]

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.