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cafaro

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 9

Boot hangs without acpi=off

My boot process hangs if I don't add acpi=off as parameter to my kernel (2.6.39-ARCH). It mostly stops at "Waiting for uevents to be processed [...] [BUSY]".
I'd like to be able to boot Arch properly *with* acpi support. How can I achieve this, or how can I find out what is causing this? I noticed a lot of threads about this issue, but none of these solutions posted there seem to be effective.

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV570 [Radeon X1950 Pro] (rev 9a)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV570 [Radeon X1950 Pro] (secondary) (rev 9a)
02:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 61)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controller (rev 01)

Not sure what other relevant info I can post... please ask and I'll post it here.

Thanks!

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,368

Re: Boot hangs without acpi=off

Acpi problems are often related to specific motherboards (especially their bios version) .

#pacman -Syu dmidecode
#dmidecode >dmidecode.txt

( run both as root)

post the first 2 items in the output, bios information and system information .

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cafaro

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 9

Re: Boot hangs without acpi=off

Acpi problems are often related to specific motherboards (especially their bios version) .

#pacman -Syu dmidecode
#dmidecode >dmidecode.txt

( run both as root)

post the first 2 items in the output, bios information and system information .

# dmidecode 2.11
SMBIOS 2.3 present.
76 structures occupying 2694 bytes.
Table at 0x000FBB80.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes
BIOS Information
    Vendor: Intel Corp.
    Version: RL86510A.86A.0089.P21.0502132202
    Release Date: 02/13/2005
    Address: 0xF0000
    Runtime Size: 64 kB
    ROM Size: 512 kB
    Characteristics:
        PCI is supported
        PNP is supported
        APM is supported
        BIOS is upgradeable
        BIOS shadowing is allowed
        Boot from CD is supported
        Selectable boot is supported
        EDD is supported
        Japanese floppy for NEC 9800 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
        Japanese floppy for Toshiba 1.2 MB is supported (int 13h)
        5.25"/360 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
        5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
        3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
        3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
        Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
        8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
        Serial services are supported (int 14h)
        Printer services are supported (int 17h)
        CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
        ACPI is supported
        USB legacy is supported
        AGP is supported
        LS-120 boot is supported
        ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
        BIOS boot specification is supported
        Function key-initiated network boot is supported

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes
System Information
    Manufacturer:                                
    Product Name:                                
    Version:                        
    Serial Number:                                
    UUID: 7DDFAA65-6E74-11D8-8C51-00E018EB099A
    Wake-up Type: Power Switch

cafaro

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 9

Re: Boot hangs without acpi=off

Bump.

Any more things I could try to fix this?

Radioactiveman

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-13

Posts: 388

Re: Boot hangs without acpi=off

You could try a bios update, a bios reset and an older kernel (kernel26-lts).