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Daren

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From: Notts, UK

Registered: 2006-01-02

Posts: 73

Hang on boot with kernel 2.6.26

Hi

I run Arch on two laptops.  After updating to Kernel 2.6.26 (either of the minor number versions), one of them (Asus A6J) hangs on boot at the following:

ACPI: Core revision 20080321
ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT

at this point, the machine has to be switched off.  Downgrading back to a 2.6.25 kernel allows it to boot normally.  It can be booted with 2.6.26 if ACPI is turned off.

When the kernel is upgraded, the process seems to complete properly (mkinitcpio) but I don't know if this is related anyway.

Any help appreciated

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: Hang on boot with kernel 2.6.26

you could try to add "nolapic_timer" to the kernel options in your grub menu.lst

I found the tip in this bug report.

Last edited by SiD (2008-09-02 20:41:34)

Daren

Member

From: Notts, UK

Registered: 2006-01-02

Posts: 73

Re: Hang on boot with kernel 2.6.26

Well, that was wierd 

I finally got back to re-updating the kernel and related modules, did a reboot intending to manually edit the grub line at boot to test it.  Missed the opportunity but watched it boot through fine.

So I don't know what changed this time (nothing I could see except for a couple of new updates such as kernel-headers which I'm sure wasn't in there before) but it now works....