Re: my Testing installation enters an endless reboot loop
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:31, Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael Doyle wrote:
> > Beginning sometime in the past week, something has changed in Testing so
> > that my installations flip out and reboot themselves within ~ 1 minute
> > of booting. If I run the current RC 1 installer,the base installation
> > enters the reboot loop upon booting for the first time. If I run the
> > beta 4 installer, the machine works just peachy until I run tasksel and
> > install desktop environment and print server tasks - I run my installs
> > over night and can't take the bandwidth to narrow it more than that
> > right now - and I won't have the time to narrow it down manually until
> > at least Thursday.
> >
> > The machines on which I've encountered this issure are Tangent systems
> > using a Micro-Star MS-6743 v1.x board, based on an Intel
> > Springdale-865G/865PE chipset.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced this issue? I can't report this as a bug
> > until I have time to track down the package(s) behind the problem.
>
> This is probably due to new, broken versions of hotplug that load
> useless and dangerous modules such as hardware watchdog drivers. Try
> adding i810-tco to /etc/hotplug/blacklist, or upgrading to hotplug
> 0.0.20040329-14. See bugs #264552 and #263556.
Adding i810-tco to /etc/hotplug/blacklist did indeed allow me to use the
installed base OS; I'll be installing a full system tonight.
Thanks.
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