Can't boot the new kernel

Jason Vas Dias jvdias at redhat.com
Fri Oct 8 22:15:25 UTC 2004


It appears to be a problem with the i915 agp driver .
Booting with either 'agp=off' or no 'rhgb' option
works fine. 

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:13, Williams Jr, Ernest L. wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Andrew
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 6:10 PM
> To: jvdias at redhat.com; For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: Can't boot the new kernel
> 
> Just rebooted after the updates today -- no problem with kernel (603) or
> 
> rhgb.  Two machines one with an nVidia card using the nv open source 
> driver and the other is a laptop with a Radeon Mobility.  Only thing I 
> do is make sure that if I get a udev update I run udevstart before the 
> reboot. 
> 
> Does one really have to run "udevstart"?  Is that recommended?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any weirdness out of dmesg?
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> 
> >Yes, I just raised bug 135134 about this - please 
> >append any further details you may have to this bug.
> >
> >If you remove the 'rhgb' boot option, or give the -s 
> >option, it boots fine.
> >
> >You can change the boot options by quickly pressing
> >'a' on the first boot (grub) screen.
> >
> >On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:33, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>When I try to boot with 2.6.8-1.598 the PC hangs as soon as the boot
> >>process turns graphical. I haven't had any problems with the previous
> >>kernel (541). I'm using an Intel D865GLC motherboard and using the
> >>on-board graphics (Extreme Graphics 2) and sound (Analog Devices
> >>AD1985 codec).
> >>
> >>Anyone else seeing this?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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