Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:The first time booting with "nmi_watchdog=1" it halted with "Mounting /dev/pts" (seen the very first boot), then booting with "nmi_watchdog=1 console=ttyS1", the capture was as before. Currently running 2.6.7-rc1 vanilla.
A7N8X-E motherboard, IDE HD's hda and hdc. Hangs forever as shown below. SYSRQ does nothing, needs a hard reset. 2.6.5-mm5 boots OK as does vanilla 2.6.7-rc1 which was built after 3 reboots of 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 hung.
Could you try adding `nmi_watchdog=1' to the boot command line? Make sure
that CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC is enabled in kernel config.