Hi, I'm having trouble booting my SuSE professional 9.0 following installation. I've tried installing using the no-ACPI and safe-mode options but neither appear to help. My PC always freezes at approximately the same point while booting (once it made it all the way to the login screen but froze there). Unfortunately, verbose mode doesn't give me many clues except that it's soon after the setfreqd procedure/command when the problem arises. Possibly, I need to look into installing some drivers at installation but I'm wondering whether I might have a problem because my hard disk is greater than 137Gb. Does anyone know if this could be the source of my troubles? Thanks, Robin --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:39:29PM +0100, robin damion wrote:
Hi,
I'm having trouble booting my SuSE professional 9.0 following installation. I've tried installing using the no-ACPI and safe-mode options but neither appear to help. My PC always freezes at approximately the same point while booting (once it made it all the way to the login screen but froze there). Unfortunately, verbose mode doesn't give me many clues except that it's soon after the setfreqd procedure/command when the problem arises. Possibly, I need to look into installing some drivers at installation but I'm wondering whether I might have a problem because my hard disk is greater than 137Gb. Does anyone know if this could be the source of my troubles?
It could be cpufreqd in theory if your BIOS is particularly broken and has a wrong PST table (i assume you meant that with setfreqd) One way to verify would be to boot with "confirm" on the kernel command line and say y when the boot process asks you for interactive boot mode. Then skip cpufreqd. If that helps you can disable it later using the sysv init script editor in yast. -Andi
Thanks for the advice, Andi. To my astonishment it actually worked and I logged in for the first time. My display was an utter mess and I could hardly read the text, but that's another issue for now. Yes, I meant cpufreqd. What does this actually do?
Robin.
Andi Kleen
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:36:41PM +0100, robin damion wrote:
Thanks for the advice, Andi. To my astonishment it actually worked and I logged in for the first time. My display was an utter mess and I could hardly read the text, but that's another issue for now. Yes, I meant cpufreqd. What does this actually do?
cpufreqd changes the frequency and voltage of your CPU depending on CPU load (AMD calls this "cool'n'quiet") This saves power and noise. But it relies on correct tables from the BIOS, and when they're wrong sometimes such problems happen. An BIOS update may cure it. Other than that you can just disable it with chkconfig cpufreqd off -Andi
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