Bug 514313 - latest rawhide kernels fail to boot
Summary: latest rawhide kernels fail to boot
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 12
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-07-28 19:52 UTC by Jan Schmidt
Modified: 2010-12-05 06:40 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-12-05 06:40:27 UTC
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Description Jan Schmidt 2009-07-28 19:52:29 UTC
Either of the latest 2 rawhide kernels I've seen fail to boot - they die somewhere before the prompt for my root volume encryption key. They start booting, and then get a black framebuffer screen that never proceeds any further.

If I turn off rhgb, the last thing I see before the screen goes black is a Nouveau message, which seems an obvious candidate.

The most recent kernel I can boot is 2.6.31-0.81.rc3.git4.fc12.i686.PAE

This is on an MBP with a NVidia graphics that Nouveau reports as "NVIDIA NV84"

Comment 1 Jan Schmidt 2009-07-30 13:38:58 UTC
The latest X packages remove compatibility with the nouveau/drm in the older kernel, so my workaround doesn't work now either.

Are there any kernel parameters I should try passing at boot time?

Comment 2 Jan Schmidt 2009-07-31 09:09:52 UTC
Still broken with this morning's 2.6.31-0.107.rc4.git3 kernels

Comment 3 John Ellson 2009-08-01 13:11:58 UTC
Still broken for me with koji kernel: 2.6.31-0.117.rc5

Boot ends with message:
   integrated sync not supportedefff000-0xfeffffff has been reserved

Last kernel that worked for me is: 2.6.31-0.81.rc3.git4

System is x86_64, dual core, nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT]

Comment 4 John Ellson 2009-08-01 13:34:07 UTC
This is a dup of Bug #514063

Adding vga=0x314 allows the kernel to boot with GeForce 7800 GT

Need to "rmmod nouveau" before building nvidia driver 190.16 from source.

Need to add:
    Section "ServerLayout"
        Option         "IgnoreABI" "true"

to keep up with xorg churn.

Comment 5 Chuck Ebbert 2009-10-11 09:14:45 UTC
Is this still happening?

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 11:09:14 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 10:40:02 UTC
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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-12-05 06:40:27 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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