Bug#816751: Boot hang also experienced in 4.9.0-3-686-pae
Hello,
I am also experiencing this problem, with a Jetway NF9C motherboard with
an Intel NM10 chipset:
http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NF9C.html
I experienced the problem while upgrading to Debian 9 (Stretch). I was
previously running Debian 8 (Jessie) but I had not upgraded the kernel
version from 3.2.78 because of the pain I had first experienced getting
RTL8168 Ethernet working.
After upgrading the kernel to 4.9.30-2+deb9u1, the machine froze
straight after starting the kernel on a normal boot. It got as far as
detecting USB in 'recovery mode' before freezing. I tried various Debian
installers on a USB stick and experienced the same freezing during
kernel boot.
Due to the lack of relevant error messages, it was very difficult to
diagnose the problem but after discovering that the 'nolacpi' kernel
option allowed the machine to boot, it was enough to find this bug
report.
Processor:
3rd Generation Intel® Atom Dual Core N2800 (1.86GHz@6.5W)
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 54
model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N2800 @ 1.86GHz
stepping : 1
microcode : 0x10d
cpu MHz : 798.000
cache size : 512 KB
I worked around this problem by putting the following line in
/etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="intel_idle.max_cstate=0"
I don't know why this problem only appears to be affecting some machines
but I can only assume that it has something to do with the BIOS, as it
can't be affecting all machines with a Atom N2600/N2800 CPU ?
Thank you so much for reporting this Chad. I very much doubt that I
would have identified the problem and solution without your bug report.
nick.
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