Hi, On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, L. Mark Stone wrote:
I have an install problem with SuSE 10, from the GM CDs.
Hardware is an Asus A7V-133 mobo with a 1.2GHx Athlon and a DPT 2865 RAID controller.
This hardware successfully runs several previous versions of SuSE, most recently 9.2. It also boots Knoppix just fine, FWIW.
I think the problem may be with the hotplug system; here's why...
The install process completes through the first reboot. After the first reboot, the system hangs solid right after "starting syslogd done" appears.
Now, in a 9.2 install, the next thing that happens at this point is that hotplug is loaded. And I've noticed on the forums several users talk about changes in the hotplug system in 10, as do the release notes.
Well, I've got a USB printer (Epson Stylus R200), an APC Back-UPS and a Zire31 all connected via USB. A 9.2 install sees them fine; I don't get that far with the 10 install. So hotplug could be the cause, assuming the install order is the same with 10 as with 9.2
I am starting the system with kernel parms noapic apm=off and FYI acpi=pciirq.
So, I guess the questions are:
1. Assuming it is hotplug which is freezing, how can I workaround this?
2. If it is not hotplug (however that may be determined), how do I find out what is causing the freeze so I can look at crafting a workaround?
I have seen probably similar "freezes" on a Turion64 notebook with ATI chipsets. Seems to be an IRQ handling problem with USB. bug #105984 The kernel parameter "irqpoll" did help. Cheers -e -- Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)