Re: Kernel 2.6.7 hangs..

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Robert Horton wrote:

> I have recently completed building a LFS (linux from scratch) system
> which uses the 2.6.7 kernel on a i686 machine. Upon reboot the systems
> hangs after the BIOS RAM mapping. Specifically:
>
> -snip-
> 511MB LOWMEM available
> On node 0 totalpages: 131056
> 	DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch: 1
> 	Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch: 16
> 	HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch: 1
>
>
> and that is as far as it goes unless it takes an inordinate amount of
> time to continue past that point. I did leave it for approximately four
> minutes and had no further progression.
>
> I searched the archives and while I did not find anything pertaining
> this I did see that the next logical progression deals with DMI and
> ACPI so I do not know if it is hanging at the memory portion or the
> next portion.

Try booting with acpi=off
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