From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937553AbXGULeH (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:34:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932859AbXGULdy (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:33:54 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:54152 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932213AbXGULdx (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:33:53 -0400 Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Dell Inspiron 1501 fails to boot in 2.6.21+ From: Thomas Gleixner To: Mark Tiefenbruck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:33:51 +0200 Message-Id: <1185017631.4012.111.camel@chaos> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 (2.10.1-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 19:37 -0700, Mark Tiefenbruck wrote: > My new laptop won't boot with kernel versions 2.6.21 or 2.6.22 . No > oops. No panic. It just stops printing messages. Maybe it would > eventually continue if I wait long enough, but it's unacceptable > either way. I include below the contents of dmesg for a working kernel > up to the point where it halts. I'm also including what it usually > does for a few lines after that point. Can you please try the following command line options in any combination: hpet=disable nohz=off highres=off nolapic_timer Thanks, tglx