http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013744 Bug ID: 1013744 Summary: Computer powers off while booting Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.2 Hardware: x86-64 OS: SUSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel Assignee: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: nwr10cst-oslnx@yahoo.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0 Build Identifier: The computer is a Dell Dimension C521, purchased in 2007. It mostly still works well, though it is almost 10 years old. I power on the computer. The grub2 menu comes up. I hit Enter. It seems to begin loading the kernel. Then the screen goes blank. The computer appears to have powered off. I try again. This time it gets a little further. I am prompted for the LUKS encryption key (I am using an encrypted LVM). Then it powers off again. Third time lucky. The computer powers up and completes boot. But it seems that the hard drive is "/dev/sde" instead of "/dev/sda". This does not happen with Leap 42.1. But it does happen with 42.2. It seems that if I use the Windows boot manager (which then starts grub2), then everything is fine. It is when I boot directly to grub/opensuse 42.2 that this happens. And it only happens on cold boot. It does not happen on a restart. I can live with the situation. I'm reporting it mainly to get word back to the kernel team in case someone else is affected. It is looking to me as if the kernel is failing to initialize something that this old hardware needs. But using NTLOADER in the first step (i.e. Windows boot manager) is sufficient to avoid the problem. (I'm not really sure if it happens every time, but it happens quite often). (And a note: When selecting "operating system", there is a choice for 42.1, but there was no choice for 42.2). Reproducible: Always -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.