Bug 200307

Summary: t700r system "freezes" after decompressing initrd
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: sabuj pattanayek <sabuj.pattanayek>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description sabuj pattanayek 2006-07-26 19:21:18 UTC 
Description of problem:

Using a RHEL 4 WS CD #1 or my own kickstart CD made from disk 1 of RHEL 4 AS U3
a dell T700r using the latest A11 bios won't boot the kernel after it
decompresses the initrd. I also tried all of these options with the "linux" kernel:

acpi=off apm=off nofb ide=nodma i8042.nomux

I am however able to boot the system with a knoppix v4.0.2 CD which uses the kernel:

Linux Knoppix 2.6.12 #2 SMP Tue Aug 9 23:20:52 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

I have attached the output of lspci -vvv and lsmod as reported by knoppix.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL4 WS or RHEL4 AS U3

How reproducible:

All the time, just try to boot the CD, with or without any kernel options.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Boot the CD with or without kernel options.
2. Freezes after decompressing the initrd.
  
Actual results:

Freezes after decompressing the initrd.

Expected results:

Should go onto the installation.
Comment 1 sabuj pattanayek 2006-07-26 19:21:19 UTC 
Created attachment 133091 [details]
lspci -vvv
Comment 2 sabuj pattanayek 2006-07-26 19:23:15 UTC 
Created attachment 133092 [details]
lsmod output from knoppix
Comment 3 sabuj pattanayek 2006-07-26 23:10:49 UTC 
It wasn't even booting a windows CD. Had to reset the bios. Ticket can be closed.