Bug 231163

Summary:	OpenSUSE 10.2 boot hangs
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Lóránt Rückert <lorantruckert>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Renninger <trenn>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Output of dmidecode

Description Lóránt Rückert 2006-12-30 12:25:00 UTC

I have a PackardBell SW51 notebook (AMD Turion 64 dual-core, 1GB RAM, nForce 430 chipset, nVIDIA GO 6100 VGA controller). When I start the default install (OpenSUSE 10.2 x86_64 DVD) the boot process freezes right after displaying the following line: IO scheduler cfg registered (default)

If I start the failsafe install, or use the acpi=off or noapic kernel parameters, everthing is fine, but I have only 1 CPU and acpi turned off.

I tried to disable USB support in the BIOS. When I started the default installer, the boot process hanged at this line: Starting udev...
But this time I had at least the chance to reboot with CTRL-ALT-DELETE.

Comment 1 Lars Marowsky-Bree 2007-01-05 16:10:41 UTC

What does the firmware diagnosis tool report, which is available from the mini-iso boot menu?

Alternatively, you can grab the toolkit from http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org/

Comment 2 Lóránt Rückert 2007-01-06 19:10:48 UTC

Here is the result of the firmware test.
To start it, I have to use one of the acpi=off, acpi=noirq, or noapic kernel parameters, as in the case of the default installer to make my box running.

The test has run with noapic kernel parameter.
During the test, a line has appeared:
plugins/thermal_trip.sh line 154: [: : integer expression expected

I put only items marked FAIL and INFO:

items marked FAIL:

DMI information check
  out of spec value found

EDD boot disk hinting
  boot device 0x80 does not support EDD

ACPI passive thermal trip points
  changing passive trip points seems uneffective in Zone TZ0

General ACPI information
  DSDT was compiled by the Intel AML compiler
  PCI express port driver reports an invalid IRQ
  PCI express port driver reports an invalid IRQ

MFCG PCI express* memory mapped config space
  E820: MCFG mmio config space at 0xe0000000 is not reserved in

HPET configuration test
  failed to locate HPET base


items marked INFO:

Processor mircocode update
  kernel too old; the kernel does not export microcode version
  kernel too old; the kernel does not export microcode version

CPU frequency steps supported
  2 CPU frequency steps supported

Comment 3 Thomas Renninger 2007-01-11 13:31:40 UTC

Nvida chipset, x86_64 with apic problems -> expect duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 232013 ***

Comment 4 Thomas Renninger 2007-01-18 15:45:58 UTC

Oh wait, maybe you have wrong dmi info in BIOS.
Can you attach dmidecode output pls, if this is the case you should be able to boot with acpi=force apic=force?

Comment 5 Lóránt Rückert 2007-01-18 21:06:50 UTC

Created attachment 113755 [details]
Output of dmidecode

Comment 6 Lóránt Rückert 2007-01-18 21:09:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Oh wait, maybe you have wrong dmi info in BIOS.
> Can you attach dmidecode output pls, if this is the case you should be able to
> boot with acpi=force apic=force?
> 

I've tried the kernel parameters above, but the same has happened. The boot process stopped right after listing of the IO schedulers.

Now I'm using the 2.6.20 rc5 kernel, downloaded from the opensuse ftp. Everything is fine, my CPUs, sound card and graphical boot is working.