> If I power down my laptop via the usual KStart->Shutdown means, it can > take up to 4 restart attempts before it fully boots. That sounds like wonky hardware > It has no problem launching grub and the kernel selection screen. That > it does reliably every time. After that, there are issues. If it launches grub the disk is fine (Grub is loaded off the disk) and I assume the laptop has one disk. > Twice I will get a back screen with a flashing cursor. Then I will get > an ehci -19 error. Then it will boot properly. The EHCI error is from USB so perhaps points to a USB problem. > Is anyone else experiencing a problem booting ? Does this sound like a > kernel problem or is my hard drive failing ? If a soft reboot fails but a hard reboot (reset button held down) works I'd suspect its something hardware related not getting properly shutdown/restarting etc. For diagnostics boot with "verbose norhgb" that should spew lots of messages and not hide it all with the graphical stuff - meaning you can actually see what is going on. See where that hangs. You could also see if reboot=acpi helps. That changes the way the reboot is done and might be better for modern machines. Len Brown is currently collecting data on making this a default so your box may be a useful data point. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
