1 machine boots 1 does not

From: Mikael (email_at_not.available)
Date: 06/18/04


Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:21:10 +0300

I have two machines with Suse 9.1, after yesterdays kernel upgrade one boots
fine and the other hangs when then kernel is loaded.

The machine that hangs is a AMD Athlon barton 2500+ with SIS 746 FX chipset,
1 GB (333 MHz) RAM, 120 GB and 80 GB Parallel ATA Maxtor disks. The boot
disk is the 120 GB one. I have Suse 8.2 also installed on this machine, and
it still boots beatifully, no problems, so the hang seems to do with 2.6.x
kernel.

The machine that survived the kernel update, and still boots, is a Intel
celeron 1 GHz, with Intel BX chipset, 768 Mhz (133 MHz) RAM, 30 GB parallel
ATA samsung harddisk.

This is the point in time when I turn off automatic updates, I have had it
on so far with no problems. It isn't such a great idea after all, is it :)

The hang seems to have something to do with Athlon processors ?

What hardware failed for you ?

Mikael

amau@sympatico.ca wrote:

> Is anyone but me experiencing problems with the latest 9.1 kernel upgrade.
> After installation, some message keeps appearing and scrolling off the
> screen and systen will no longer boot. Message says something like bad:
> ---- while atomic, followed by Trace and another 10 or so lines, then the
> whole thing repeats ad infinitum.



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