Re: Weird freezes with 2.6.28/29

[Chris Howie]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Chris Howie <cdhowie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Woody Suwalski <woodys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I am getting similar problem on Dell 4x00 laptops caused by loading
>> processor.ko.
>> If I use nocst=1 option, systems are OK.
>
> Thanks, this has eliminated the second freeze (where I must hold down
> a key to allow boot to proceed) but I still have to hit the power
> button to get the initial boot going.

Hmm, it turns out it didn't actually fix it.  The hold-a-key-down
freeze doesn't happen every time and it didn't for a while after I
added this option, but it started again this morning.

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