Hangs on Boot on 2.6.17-1.2174 and ASUS M2NPV-VM Motherboard

[Robert L Cochran]

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 21:22 -0700, Khoa Ton wrote:
> Thanks for the corrections, Bob.
> 
> Yes, the kernel is 2.6.17-1.2174.  Here are the last lines on the
> console at the hang (typed in manually):
> 
> Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> Loading keyring
> - Added public key D4AD441F6DB3F282
> - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> _
> 
> The last "_" represents the blinking cursor
> 


I don't know what your problem is, and I'm not a real kernel expert --
others here are better than me. With that understanding, I checked my
own corresponding messages and ACPI processing appears after the
ioscheduler messages. Here are my kernel messages. In my case I have an
Asrock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard which is using an Athlon 64 X2 4800+
processor. Here we are:

Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux:  Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key D4AD441F6DB3F282
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 29 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 39 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:03.0:pcie00]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:06.0[A] -> GSI 50 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:06.0:pcie00]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.0[A] -> GSI 55 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:07.0:pcie00]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:08.0[A] -> GSI 60 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:08.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:08.0:pcie00]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
....
....

So my guess is, you have an ACPI issue of some sort, but don't take my
word for it. 

Bob Cochran