RE: [gentoo-user] Problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6

["Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\)" <David.Nelson2@astrazeneca.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iván Pérez Domínguez [mailto:ivanperezdominguez@gmail.com]
> Sent: 14 January 2007 23:28
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6
> 
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> I'm having a problem with kernel 2.6.18-r6. My laptop hangs 
> during boot,
> right after detecting the mouse and the keyboard. it doesn't matter
> whether I enable initrd or not, dies anyway. No kernel panic, no oops
> messages, it simply freezes.
> 
> The funny thing is that sometimes it keeps running a little more
> (detects the hard disk, sometimes even the dvd drive), and 1 in 100
> times, everything works fine and it boots normally.
> 
> I'm currently running kernel 2.6.13 and everything works fine (despite
> the things that need >2.6.13 to work).
> 
> I attach my kernel config, maybe someone knows what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>   Ivan
> 

Can you check dmesg from when it manages to boot? Not sure, but there may be some clues in there.

David
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