Description of problem: Hangs during boot Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version : 2.6.16 Release : 1.2107_FC5 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. 3. Actual results: hangs Expected results: Boot into linux like on previous release (2.6.16-1.2096_FC5). All versions of FC5 have booted on this PC since FC5 became available. This new kernel is not producing the same results... :-( Motherboard: A8R-MVP CPU: AMD64 3700+ Memory: 2Gbyte Hard drive: 400 Gb SATA Additional info: I am attaching the contents of the "message" file that starts with the installation of the kernel.
Created attachment 128573 [details] Copy of /var/log/messages
does booting with pci=nomsi make this go away?
Dave, I added the command as shown below and it didn't help.... Regards, -Tony L. # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2107_FC5) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb pci=nomsi initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.16-1.2096_FC5) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.img title WindowsXP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
that's puzzling. I'll look into why that didn't work. 2108, available from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/ has this disabled by default. Give that a try ?