Bug 1156 – Lockups on Gentoo Rescue on Laptop

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-03-14 21:37:46 UTC]

I just got a new Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop.  There are known issues regarding
APIC support on these laptops, so insuing, the gentoo install kernel lockups
after a few minutes after boot.

There is a reference here under powermanagement: http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq
and inside the dell-laptops mailing list.  In addition after some reading, Dell
ships their laptops with modified processors, thus SMP _AND_ APIC support need
to be removed from the rescue kernel.

Gentoo ISO version: 1.0-rc6-r17
Dell p3 1.1 ghz inspiron 8100

-Ryan

[Comment 1 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-03-14 21:40:40 UTC]

Oops, I forgot to mention, that I installed Mandrake 8.1 - minimal install, and
created the linux partitions using this.  Then mounted the gentoo distro, and
chrooted from Mandrake.  It appears to be working fine so far.  I'm almost to
the kernel compile section of the install docs with no lockups.

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-03-15 10:43:52 UTC]

cool!  We'll fix this on our next CD.

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-03-21 16:48:54 UTC]

I have some bad news for you -- I don't think the -r17 CD has ACPI enabled.  I
could be wrong, maybe see if you can see anything related to ACPI when the
kernel boots.

[Comment 4 Chad Huneycutt (RETIRED) 2002-03-21 17:04:28 UTC]

not ACPI, APIC!

[Comment 5 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-04-04 19:59:52 UTC]

This is fixed in the 1.0 CD.