Bug#475325: Kernel Boot Failure

[Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>]

Peter McGill wrote:
> Boot hangs (>45 min) after the following messages.
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16384 bytes)
> TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 65536 bytes)
> TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order 3, 32768 bytes)
> TCP reno registered
> Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1
> audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
> audit(1207709038.868:1): initialized
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> io scheduler noop registered
> io scheduler anticipatory registered
> io scheduler deadline registered
> io scheduler cfq registered (default)
> PCI: MSI quirk detected. pci_msi_quirk set.
> PCI: MSI quirk detected. pci_msi_quirk set.

Hi,

This looks like a kernel issue / incompatibility.  Try one of these at
the boot prompt:

install pci=nomsi
install pci=nomsi pci=noacpi nolapic noapic acpi=off

-jim