On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:36, Frédéric Dreier wrote: > Hi, > > I re-installed my laptop (dell inspiron 8100) with the new installer > (kernel 2.6). > > Then I apt-get the newer kernel source and compile it (make-kpkg > --initrd kernel_image; dpkg -i kernel-image...). but it hangs randomly > during the boot (sometimes at ide detection or when setting system > clock,..). >
Try booting with acpi=off. We have a bunch of Dell servers that hang at boot because of hwclock (hangs right after loading rtc driver). We had to hack the hwclock rc script and pass --directisa to hwclock. You could simply not use ACPI but we needed it to enable hyperthreading. I don't really know about the IDE detection stuff. Everything here is SCSI.
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