Newbie: Slack 10.2 test26.s kernel hangs at: "ACPI (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)"

sicosi · 09-28-2006, 01:26 PM

I installed slack 10.2 with bare.i kernel, formatted to ext3 and followed some instructions for upgrading to the pre built 2.6 kernel "test26.s". I installed the packages off the second cd, and followed the instructions on making an initrd, and altered my lilo.conf

It works the first time you boot it and then almost every time afterwards it hangs on boot at the following line:

ACPI (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)

Which I think is the point that it starts loading stuff from the initrd.

I also tried not having an initrd and formatting to ext2 and that did the same thing. My mobo is an ABIT IC-7 MAX3, and i am installing to a regular ide hard disk.

I also tried disabling the (unused) sata controller and that didn't work either. Also tried booting the test26.s kernel on the install disk which does the same thing.

I was thinking about attempting to compile my own 2.6 kernel but I don't know what options I should pick.

Any ideas on how i can get a 2.6 kernel working?

gilead · 09-28-2006, 01:46 PM

I used the huge26.s kernel and had no problems. Do you have the huge26.s kernel on your disks? It's worth updating since there were fixes for both of them yesterday:

Code:

Thu Sep 28 03:33:49 CDT 2006
ap/vorbis-tools-1.1.1-i486-3.tgz:  Fixed UTF8 support.
  Thanks to Igor Pashev for providing a simple patch from Gene Pavlovsky.
kernels/huge26.s/*:  Added support for USB and IEEE1394 storage devices.
kernels/test26.s/*:  Added support for USB and IEEE1394 storage devices.
  Thanks to Tais M. Hansen for pointing out that these kernels lacked support
  for USB storage devices.  Using these kernels with udev may cause a few
  warnings at boot time as udev attempts to load the already built-in support,
  but these seem to be harmless.

Alien Bob · 09-28-2006, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilead

I used the huge26.s kernel and had no problems. Do you have the huge26.s kernel on your disks?

Sicosi is using Slackware 10.2. The huge26 kernel is for Slackware-current, and is compiled with another version of gcc. I would not advise installing the binary package, but alternatively you could grab the config file Pat used to build that kernel and then compile your own "huge26" kernel for Slackware 10.2.

Eric

gilead · 09-28-2006, 02:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

Sicosi is using Slackware 10.2.

Sorry about that - my mistake for leaving the "When Will The Next Slackware Release Arrive" thread open in the other window...

gilead · 09-28-2006, 02:25 PM

In the file Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt in the kernel sources, it says that you can force no acpi by passing acpi=off to the kernel when you boot. If the problem is with ACPI rather than the initrd that may help.