Bug 183922
Summary: | Kernel/initrd boot hang on Tyan S2462 (Thunder K7) | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | gary.anderson |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Red Hat Kernel Hardware Manager <kernel-hw-mgr> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 4.0 | CC: | jbaron |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2012-06-20 13:29:24 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
gary.anderson
2006-03-03 19:23:12 UTC
Did some research on this bug. It seems that there is a resolution and problem description over at the Kernel.org Bugzilla that matches this issue: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2827 Bugzilla Bug 2827 boot delay before console displays The basic description of the bug is that the kernel has CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT enabled ("Video mode selection support"), and reads the EDID from the Matrox G450 card - but it hangs during the read due to an issue reading the Video BIOS DDC from cards that "do" DDC1. The main problem lies in the "call store_edid" function in arch/i386/boot/video.S. It is reccomended to comment out this fuction and recompile. I can confirm that the bug does not occur on a Tyan 2462 mainboard with a Siluro FX 5200 (nVidia). I suspect that it will not occur with other cards as well, but I have to locate some other cards to test with first. great pointer! thanks for the help :) we'll get somebody to look into the appropriate fix for rhel4. thanks. Is there any more movement on this bug? I have more than quite a few production RHEL4 systems that match this profile to keep in line with any kernel updates that might happen. Recopiles are a pain for that many. Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. Please See https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/ If you would like Red Hat to re-consider your feature request for an active release, please re-open the request via appropriate support channels and provide additional supporting details about the importance of this issue. |