2008/11/15 Peter Reed <peterreed@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Saturday 15 November 2008 11:54:32 am Martín Marqués wrote: >> I just updated my F9 in my laptop (Compaq Presario F756la) and I >> noticed problems booting the kernel. >> >> At first I just thought it hanged at boot time (it freezed during the >> boot sequence). Then I took of the quite option from grub and saw that >> it stated booting but at a moment it started to hang (when loading the >> synaptics driver). But the strangest part is that touching some of the >> keys of the keyboard (caps lock for example) made the kernel keep >> booting again, and a few seconds later again a freeze, and so on until >> it starts the services. At that moment it isn't necesary to keep >> touching keys. >> >> Any thought about what's gooing on the kernel 2.6.27.5-37.fc9.x86_64? > > I am having the same problem with a HP Pavilion dv6505us. I turned of the rhgb > and quiet options in grub and found it seems to be related to the touchpad as > well although I have an external logitech wireless track ball attached that I > have to unplug to get it to boot and I have to either touch the keyboard or > the touchpad to get it to continue to boot. Once it gets to the udev section > of the boot process I can plug the mouse back in and everything seems to work > fine. I found this in the linux kernel bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11418 Put hpet=disable in the kernel command line and see if that works. It did for me. BTW, I have no idea on what hpet is. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
