Re: Kernel freezing....

Jorge Carminati
2001-12-06T14:45:52Z

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--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > installed two times Red Hat in this notebook during this week, and
> no
> > freeze was suffered during the whole installation process, which is
> a
> > process that as you know requires almost an hour to complete.
> >
> > I´m just asking why the kernel doesn´t freeze during the
> installation
> > process (which it is supposed to run Linux I suspect :) ) and just
> > after booting and typing some commands in init 1 mode, it freezes;
> > quite strange.
>
> At least one possible cause is that the runtime kernels will use APM
> power
> management and other facilities that the install kernel intentionally
> avoids
> because a tiny number of boxes have it broken.
>
> You can boot with extra boot options (apm=off I believe it is) to
> disable
> APM use.

Alan,

The custom made kernel (2.4.16) I tried yesterday (compiled under my
Mandrake workstation and ftped to the notebook) didn´t have the APM
option set. I could post the .config but first, as to discard a memory
error as you suggested, I´ll try tonight memtest86 and see what
happends.

Thanks.
jc.