Sony Vaio hangs in init scripts

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Apr 10 04:16:34 UTC 2004


On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:21:09PM -0500, David G. Mackay wrote:
> I just installed FC2-test2 on my Sony Vaio laptop which had been running
> RH9.  The system makes it through the install, then through the post
> install account creation for a non-root user.  As soon as the post
> install is finished and the system attempts to begin normal operation,
> the screen blanks and all disk activity ceases.  When I attempt to boot,
> I get to the point where the graphic boot screen comes up, and the last
> message that is see is setting the hostname before the screen blanks and
> disk activity ceases.  I even tried putting selinux=0 in the kernel
> parameters, with no change in the result.  When I go into rescue mode, I
> see that no new messages are entered into /var/log/messages or dmesg as
> a result of the later boot attempts.  I do not currently have an rs-232
> crossover cable to use for a serial console.
> Does anyone have any suggestions on further debugging steps?

Try finding the part in the boot scripts that calls hwclock and comment that
out. That hangs my Vaio (or does, when not using ACPI).

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