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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Hubert Tonneau <hubert.tonneau@fullpliant.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6 no boot report
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:54:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040311165439.GC6173@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <043MWM712@server5.heliogroup.fr>

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 04:32:31PM +0000, Hubert Tonneau wrote:
> I've successfully run Linux kernel 2.6 on several boxes, with the exception
> of the Dell PowerEdge 2600:
> The box is:
> . dual Xeon
> . Fusion SCSI controler
> . root partition is software RAID 1
> . Intel pro 1000 ethernet
> 
> It fails with all 2.6 kernel I tried, including the fresh 2.6.4
> No error message at all, the machine just freezes after displaying network
> protocols and before displaying VFS root mounting message.
> 
> CONFIG_2GB:  y
> CONFIG_APM:  y

Might it be failing initializing APM?  You might try disabling APM, or
pass 'apm=off' on the kernel command line and see if that helps.  This
is a server, and APM isn't specifically tested.  We've seen this
problem on other platforms recently.

Thanks,
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-11 16:32 Linux 2.6 no boot report Hubert Tonneau
2004-03-11 16:54 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
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2004-03-11 17:21 Hubert Tonneau
2004-03-11 17:30 Hubert Tonneau

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