HELP requested with kernel crash at boot F10/HP 2140 Netbook

[maxwax]

I'm having trouble getting Fedora 10 to work on a nice new HP 2140 business class netbook. This is yet another Intel ATOM / Intel 945GSE chipset based Netbook with 1G of RAM, 160G HD, gig-e, wireless, 10" screen, etc. Really nice keyboard

I used F10 Live image on a USB stick to install Fedora. While doing so I noticed some flaky behaviour booting but thought it might be USB related.

I got F10 up and running and it looks really sweet. But after a major set of F10 upgrades, now I can only get this far:

1) Hardware powers up and initializes
2) BIOS boots and shows logo then executes GRUB
3) GRUB is fully functional from what I can see. I can boot XP, navigate through options, make changes, etc.
4) When I try to boot Fedora I either get:

a> 80x25 text screen black with white cursor in top right and nothing more
b> reboot back to BIOS startup
c> kernel crash that provides too much information and I can only see the last bits of a kernel trace
d> possibly a kernel report of BUG in some way or another, but it comes and goes so fast I can't tell what it is reporting.

So, can anyone suggest anything I can try to start working on resolving this? I'll take any suggestions in order to learn more.. kernel options, grub commands, etc. I'm patient with this and willing to try many options in order to ultimately get it working.

Thanks!

[dmzxls]

I have the same problem with my 2140 as well. I have had to resort to loading Ubuntu on mine - though I would much rather be running F10.

[Nokia]

1. Try F10 respin. It has many updates already integrated.

2.You could try booting the live usb, mount the Fedora installation rw, chroot to it, download the latest .29 kernel and install it with rpm -ivh Might work.

[maxwax]

Originally Posted by maxwax

I'm having trouble getting Fedora 10 to work on a nice new HP 2140 business class netbook. This is yet another Intel ATOM / Intel 945GSE chipset based Netbook with 1G of RAM, 160G HD, gig-e, wireless, 10" screen, etc. Really nice keyboard

I got F10 up and running and it looks really sweet. But after a major set of F10 upgrades, now I can only get this far:

1) Hardware powers up and initializes
2) BIOS boots and shows logo then executes GRUB
3) GRUB is fully functional from what I can see. I can boot XP, navigate through options, make changes, etc.
4) When I try to boot Fedora I either get:

a> 80x25 text screen black with white cursor in top right and nothing more
b> reboot back to BIOS startup
c> kernel crash that provides too much information and I can only see the last bits of a kernel trace
d> possibly a kernel report of BUG in some way or another, but it comes and goes so fast I can't tell what it is reporting.

I've now found that adding "boot_delay=5" kernel parameter (either temporarily with the 'a' (append) command at the grub boot menu or by editing /etc/grub.conf) will slow down the boot process and bypasss some sort of a timing issue that causes this problems. Instead of booting 10% of the time my 2140 is now booting 95% of the time. Redhat reports a possible kernel fix may be in 2.6.29 but I haven't tried it -- yet.

Hope this helps other 2140 users who are looking for solutions.

[atrus]

We're tracking a bug on the ubuntu bug list here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/376728

We seem to have the same issue. I can also work around the bug by booting without the AC power plugged in, and only plugging it in once the system is up and running.