Description of problem: I have an ibm t40p notebook. It has been running fedora 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 without issue. When I updated to 4.7.9 kernel, it would hand during boot. I got a flashing "_" and no other output. I tried 4.8.4 and I got the same hang. When i use the older kernel, 4.7.5, it works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.8.4 and 4.7.9 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. patch system 2. reboot 3. hang Actual results: system will not boot Expected results: system successfully boots Additional info:
This is a notebook from around 2002. It uses a pentium M, 1.6ghz. It has 2gb of ram, and an ide hard drive.
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE ************** We apologize for the inconvenience. There are a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale. Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 24 kernel bugs. Fedora 25 has now been rebased to 4.10.9-100.fc24. Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel. If you have moved on to Fedora 26, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 26. If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.
Issue resolved with new kernel.
Thanks for the update