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maxplank

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 5

Kernel /OS just hangs with booting with 2.6.28 kernel

I was using 2.6.27-arch , the previous one, everything was fine, i updated with pacman , the new kernel,
while it is booting it comes to a stage where it probes PCI ...... things like that and just hangs on. no further going than that, so i had to downgrade again to 2.6.27 which works perfectly fine.

labtop: toshiba satellite 1135
processor: intel celeron.

it just hangs in middle , so i can;t show you guys output, what could be the reason? any clues, i tired adding

clocksource=hpet

as well as clocksource=acpi_pm ... but nothing,

kernel hangs when it gets to that point.

Wittfella

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 462

Re: Kernel /OS just hangs with booting with 2.6.28 kernel

You mean it stops at 'Loading udev' event, or not even that far.  If its getting to udev try leave it for quite a while, even though it appears frozen it sometimes reaches a timeout and keeps going.

Something to try just as a blind hunch, blacklist (or unblacklist if it is already) pcspkr in rc.conf.

Last edited by Wittfella (2009-01-30 10:01:36)

maxplank

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Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 5

Re: Kernel /OS just hangs with booting with 2.6.28 kernel

no man, not that far, i know udev sometime sucks and hangs on for a while, it stops in probing stage, when you just boot, it hangs at the PCI probing stage ,,, any ideas how or what may be causing this ?

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Kernel /OS just hangs with booting with 2.6.28 kernel

Did you try the kernel option "pci=routeirq" or "pci=noacpi" or any of the other common option to try when you can't boot?

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