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Kernel 3.2.2 hangs on boot. They don't produce any error messages, even with initcall_debug and debug. I have ASRock H61iCafe. acpi=off lets it boot, but then it doesn't detect monitor resolution and 3D acceleration doesn't work (I use nouveau). rdblacklist=nouveau without acpi=off seems to let it to proceed a little further, but it still hangs in the end.
Please install kernel-debug and see if further output is seen. There was another user that had problems with hangs and it was assigned to nouveau to start with.
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3.3 kernel is worse - it shuts down the display.
I've seen this happen too a while ago. It never got fixed. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/23/320 If you just leave it, eventually it finishes loading. (On my Vaio it took about 15 minutes, it may take longer/shorter depending on your specific hardware).
My dmesg shows a 1500 second delay at boot that I just left sitting to see if anything would ever happen: [ 1.072689] ACPI: Power Button [PWRF] [ 1.072963] ACPI: processor limited to max C-state 1 [ 1500.748846] GHES: HEST is not enabled! $ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.7-4.fc17.i686.PAE root=UUID=9a93ee82-56cd-4a48-b41f-85d381ac9eef ro rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us rd.luks=0 rd.md.uuid=84d2383d:42f58580:793d3d6d:521bb619 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.6.7-4.fc17.i686.PAE (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.7.2 20120921 (Red Hat 4.7.2-2) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 20:07:38 UTC 2012 I was blacklisting nouveau and that's when I first experienced a long boot hang. I did not wait (I hit the reset button after a minute or two) so I don't know if the behavior would have been different. I will try using kernel-debug to see if anything else is logged.
I was unable to reproduce the problem with kernel-debug. I can easily reproduce with 3.6.7-4.fc17.i686.PAE, however. I found that adding acpi=off eliminates the delay.
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