Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 70413
Bootprocess kernel-smp-athlon hangs when checking for new hardware
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:01:52 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 Description of problem: When choosing the athlon-smp kernel as of kernel-smp-2.4.18-7.80.athlon.rpm through kernel-smp-2.4.18-7.85.athlon.rpm the boot process hangs when kudzu checks for new hardware. The same kernel-2.4.18-7.80/85.athlon.rpm and kernel-bigmem-2.4.18-7.80/85.i686.rpm do not have this problem. Motherboard is a Tyan Thunder K7 (dual AMD MP 1800+ 4Gb memory) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Reboot to the same kernel in grub Actual Results: Same thing. When booting the non-smp kernels there is no problem Expected Results: Just a normal boot Additional info: See above
What other hardware do you have in the system?
Hardware : Tyan Thunder K7 S2462 with 2 AMD MP 1800+ 4 1Gb Kingston Registered ram Matrox-G550 LG 52x CD-ROM Pioneer DVD 16/40x 106S 2 IBM-DDYST-36950 36.7 Gb scsi disks Nec 1.44 Mb floppy BTW : with the kernel-2.4.18-7.86 (binmem/smp/athlon) and kudzu-0.99.63-4 more or less the same thing happens. It tries to start up X-windows and hangs before I even have logged in as a user. Which is strange because I do not use a graphical log-in.
If it changes depending on what kernel you run, this is more likely a kernel issue.
Problem has gone as of kernel-smp-2.4.18-7.95. The mysterious graphical log in turnout to be caused by the new feature "firstboot". Now that problem has also been solved. The firstboot screen looked very nice. Only thing is that the Sound Blaster Audigy is correctly detected but does not play the check-sounds (or whatever sound for that matter).