Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124579
ACPI: boot hang after a Plug & Play unless acpi=off - Dell OptiPlex GX110
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:06:27 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040308 Description of problem: I have tried to install Fedora Core 2 on Dell OptiPlex GX110 (P3 700MHz). The installs hangs after a Plug & Play message it looks to me when the kernel loads from CD. The same computer was used to install run RedHat 9.0 and RedHat 7.3 without any problems before. It is the original Dell system with an extra 128M (total 256M) memory chip plus an extra "tulip.o" network card. I have sucessfully installed FC2 on two other computers from the same CD set, so that CDs are good. I also tried to boot from a hardrive with already installed FC2 on the computer (I assumed that, ok, probably some modules would fail to load) but the computers hangs after kernel decompression on kernel loading. It looks like some hardware support that was traditional for RedHat compiles of kernels is not included in the release. This happened to be deadly critical for the "Dell OptiPlex GX110" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from FC2 with default or text options I could not aviod the problem Actual Results: kernel hangs Expected Results: install to continue Additional info:
can you get the exact message where it hangs ? Does booting with acpi=off help ?
The Last messages before the system hanged were: PCI: Probing PCI Hardware (bus 00) Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: Interupt Link [LNKA](IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 8 *9 10 11 12 13 14 15) ACPI: Interupt Link [LNKB](IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 *10 11 12 13 14 15) ACPI: Interupt Link [LNKC](IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15) ACPI: Interupt Link [LNKC](IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 *11 12 13 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay no more messages, it is frozen The suggested above install boot option boot: linux acpi=off resolved the install issue for me, the installer automatically propagated acpi=off to GRUB setting to be used each time. Thank you very much ;^)
Please verify that the system is running the latest BIOS. Does it boot if you replace "acpi=off" with "pci=noacpi"? If so, can you attach the complete dmesg? Any chance we can boot with "debug" and w/o any acpi cmdline options and capture a serial console log?
Created attachment 100692 [details] logs on a serial console from failed boots
I run the latest "BIOS Version A09" from the www.dell.com The option "pci=noacpi" does not help, boot hangs at the same spot. I captured through a serial terminal failed boot messages with "debug" (no any acpi options) and "debug pci=noacpi". I also included "dmesg" file from a healthy boot with the "acpi=off" option. The stuff is in "boot_logs.tar" attachment.
Could you please try the patch in http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi? id=2641. It resolves IO port reservation problem. Thanks.
If the BIOS has any options to enable/disable PlugN'Plan support, please disable it.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.