hard hang at boot -- i386 F7T4 + latest rawhide

[John Poelstra]

John Poelstra said the following on 05/16/2007 02:09 PM Pacific Time:
> At power up box hangs (keyboard lights blinking) about 50% of the time 
> while it appears to be starting the network.  Running on a Dell 
> Precision 470.  Weird thing is that I power the box off and it boots 
> fine the next time.
> 
> uname -a
> Linux yardsale 2.6.21-1.3149.fc7 #1 SMP Fri May 11 12:12:11 EDT 2007 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?
> 
> No information in /var/log/messages and I don't have a serial cable handy.
> 
> John 


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240992

Still seeing this problem.  Appears to be hanging at "network start" section of boot routine (watching the graphical boot screen).

# uname -a
Linux yardsale 2.6.21-1.3175.fc7 #1 SMP Mon May 21 11:35:59 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I performed a more scientific (?) study this time, starting at a complete power off state each time (as opposed to rebooting when I had a successful boot).  What is interesting is that it failed almost every other time until it started failing every time.  Boot failed 66% of the time.

Boot Attempt   Result
============  =========
     1          HANG
     2          boot
     3          HANG
     4          boot
     5          HANG
     6          boot
     7          HANG
     8          boot
     9          HANG
    10          HANG
    11          HANG
    12          boot
    13         (no more, I need my primary desktop to do work)