https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User n1ho@comcast.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c2 --- Comment #2 from Bayard Coolidge 2008-10-06 19:26:48 MDT --- Problem persists in Beta 2. Differences are that the frame buffer device is reported as 171x61, the input: AT stanza appears before the cpuidle stanzas, 1436k of unused kernel memory is freed, and 4896k of kernel read-only data is write protected, and installation program is v3.3.7. The problem occurs if I have the USB disk plugged in at boot time. If it is not, the 'Loading basic drivers' takes only a moment or two, and the installation program reports that the system is a Compaq V6133CL (which is the parent of the product family involved). The installation appears to proceed correctly, but I elected to stop at the license acceptance screen. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User n1ho@comcast.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c4 --- Comment #4 from Bayard Coolidge 2008-10-24 09:04:41 MDT --- After reviewing BZ 429344, I inspected the output at Ctrl-Alt-F3 and -F4 on my laptop, because this particular variant of the dv6000/dv9000 has the NVIDIA chipset (MCP51) about which Tejun Heo expressed some concern. When I boot Beta3 with no kernel arguments, the startup hangs, as indicated in my initial report, at "Loading basic drivers...". At that point, I hit Ctrl-Alt-F3 and read (and this is a manual transcription): Remount of / ok setfont linuxrc2-16.psfu CPU: 1, Memory: 1877892 insmod /modules/af_packet.ko And at Ctrl-Alt-F4, I can see that, generally speaking, all of the I/O is configured, including the wireless card and, especially, the USB disk is discovered/sized. At the bottom of that screen, it's hung at: Startup... st: Version 20080504, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Like BZ 429344, openSUSE 11.0 works very nicely on this laptop; if you need lspci -v, dmesg, or other configuration reports, I'll grab them for you. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User kasievers@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c6 Kay Sievers changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |n1ho@comcast.net --- Comment #6 from Kay Sievers 2008-11-06 15:15:47 MST --- Care to try to add as "Boot Options": pci=nommconf noapic nolapic acpi=off and find out if it boots, and which of these options actually made it work? Thanks! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User n1ho@comcast.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c8 Bayard Coolidge changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kasievers@novell.com |bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|n1ho@comcast.net | --- Comment #8 from Bayard Coolidge 2008-11-28 20:29:35 MST --- RC1 has similar problems. I had to manually unplug/replug the USB cable at the "Loading basic drivers..." point after waiting 7 minutes for nothing to happen. That caused the installation process to waddle through to "Activating USB devices...". I waited 5 minutes (+/- 10 sec) and it finally continued on spontaneously. "Activating ieee1394 devices..." took another 3 minute wait (even though there were no ieee1394 devices to be found), and "Reading driver update" took 10 minutes. "Loading installation system (1/n)" took 2.5 minutes, and it took about 20 minutes for all of them to finally load. The RC1 stuff was done without any boot command switches, BTW. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User jeffm@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c9 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jeffm@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |n1ho@comcast.net --- Comment #9 from Jeff Mahoney 2008-12-02 09:16:30 MST --- Can you switch to console 10 early in the boot and report anything interesting like an oops or a timeout? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User jeffm@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c11 Jeff Mahoney changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |n1ho@comcast.net --- Comment #11 from Jeff Mahoney 2008-12-02 21:36:19 MST --- Does it help if you hold down the space bar or hit it a bunch of times? I'm wondering if something is up with interrupts on your system. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User gregkh@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c13 Greg Kroah-Hartman changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |n1ho@comcast.net --- Comment #13 from Greg Kroah-Hartman 2009-01-22 21:39:59 MST --- Is this resolved in the final 11.1 release? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 Raimund Dold changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Version|Beta 1 |Final -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284 User n1ho@comcast.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430284#c16 --- Comment #16 from Bayard Coolidge 2009-01-30 11:37:21 MST --- This problem persists in the final version of the 11.1 Release on my dv9000z. My apologies for the delay in re-checking. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.