Re: freeze in bootup

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:08:38AM +0000, Nikolaj Erichsen wrote:
> I sometimes have some troubles in starting up my 2.4.14 and 2.4.17
> kernels on my dell Inspiron 8100 (with bios A08), the computer freezes
> randomly during bootup, sometimes it's in configuring network, sometimes
> it's when staring X, usually it's somewhere else(!)
> Maybe the bios is buggy or is it apm...thank god for journaling...
> 

My system (Toshiba 490CDT) freezes like that when I switch ACPI support on
(kernel 2.4.17).  It runs APM fine, though.

Drew