Fedora mysteriously hangs for no reason at all

[Peter Santiago]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Doug Brott
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 7:33 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Fedora mysteriously hangs for no reason at all
>
> Peter Santiago wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm using 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl kernel on an AMD Athlon 1G with
> 512 RAM.
> >Ever since upgrading the kernel version from the stock kernel, my
> >machine suffers infrequent machine hangs.  Checking
> /var/log/messages
> >doesn't show anything out of place.
> >
> >
> I added the following two options to my boot line in grub.conf
>
> apm=off acpi=off
>
> My entire boot line look like this:
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ apm=off
> acpi=off hdd=ide-scsi rhgb

Thanks, I'll try out this one....
>
> However, your options may be slightly different.
>
> Also, I disabled ACPI in the bios.  This only became a
> problem for me with Fedora, I never had the problem with
> RedHat 9.0.  Also, something must have changed recently,
> because I had corrected this problem before with the options
> spelled a different way.  After making these changes and
> rebooting, I have not had one lockup.
>
> --
> Doug Brott
> brott at redh.com
>
>


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