FC4: 2.6.13 kernel (still) won't boot on Dell Inspiron 5150/P4

Now Fedora has released a new 2.6.13 kernel for FC4. But it won't boot
on my Dell Inspiron 5150, P4, neither 2.6.13-1.1526smp nor
2.6.13-1.1532smp. All versions up to and including 2.6.12 works just
fine. After "Uncompressing the kernel ... OK, Booting Linux" all I get
is a newline, then it hangs.

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jon martin solaas

Jon Martin Solaas wrote:
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> Now Fedora has released a new 2.6.13 kernel for FC4. But it won't boot
> on my Dell Inspiron 5150, P4, neither 2.6.13-1.1526smp nor
> 2.6.13-1.1532smp. All versions up to and including 2.6.12 works just
> fine. After "Uncompressing the kernel ... OK, Booting Linux" all I get
> is a newline, then it hangs.
>[/color]

Do you have 'quiet' on the boot command line? If so, can you remove
it, and find out where its hanging?

Also please post your /boot/grub/grug.conf file.

You might want to create a bug report about this also (it's free);

[url]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi[/url]

You might want to also build your own kernel from the vanilla or Fedora
source code and see if that fixes the problem.

[url]http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html[/url]
[url]http://kernel.org/[/url]
ttp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/


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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759

Jon Martin Solaas wrote:
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> Now Fedora has released a new 2.6.13 kernel for FC4. But it won't boot
> on my Dell Inspiron 5150, P4, neither 2.6.13-1.1526smp nor
> 2.6.13-1.1532smp. All versions up to and including 2.6.12 works just
> fine. After "Uncompressing the kernel ... OK, Booting Linux" all I get
> is a newline, then it hangs.
>[/color]

It seems that the SMP code is now tied to ACPI, see this thread;

2.6.13 SMP Changes?
From:
Fao, Sean <sean@capitalgenomix.com>
Groups:
linux.kernel

So you need to compile and use ACPI with the 2.6.13+ kernels.


--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759