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mephistophyles

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Registered: 2008-08-27

Posts: 4

boot up freezes

Hey all,

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to fix the following:

I run a dual-boot box with Vista and Arch on it.  Everything has been fine so far, but the time was wrong (it was 4 or 5 hours ahead).  Didn't notice this until I booted back into Vista and changed it there.  Now, every time I try and boot up Arch, whether it's the normal Archlinux or Archlinux fallback, the computer freezes at the same point:

last lines on the machine:
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=12, HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=4, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine... 5339.36 BogoMIPS (lpj=8894985)
Security Framework initialized
Capability LSM initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
using mwait in idle threads.
Checking 'hlt' instructions... ok.
ACPI: Core revision 20080321
ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
*blinking underscore here*

any help would be greatly appreciated because having to reinstall again would be a pain.

killercow

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Registered: 2008-08-27

Posts: 22

Re: boot up freezes

It's a long-shot, but try setting the time manually in the BIOS?

I'm still fairly new to arch and linux in general.. but that's what I would try first.

mephistophyles

Member

Registered: 2008-08-27

Posts: 4

Re: boot up freezes

Thanks, it worked!  However, the time was fairly accurate in the BIOS that I just reset the seconds bit.

Could you also explain why (you think) it worked, so I can avoid any of this in the future?

killercow

Member

Registered: 2008-08-27

Posts: 22

Re: boot up freezes

Thanks, it worked!  However, the time was fairly accurate in the BIOS that I just reset the seconds bit.

Could you also explain why (you think) it worked, so I can avoid any of this in the future?

Unfortunately I really don't know! lol The only explaination I can think of is that the BIOS clock had a minor corruption or instability, which was reset by you resetting the seconds.

You shouldn't have any more problems, however if you do, I would inspect the battery on your motherboard. If the battery is not holding it's charge properly, when you turn off your computer it may be causing problems (corruption?) with your system clock (which is powered by the battery when your PC is off [incase you didn't know!]).

Glad you got it sorted for now anyway

KC