[Bug 610200] Re: kernels after 2.6.32-17 have random failures in booting

[brian mullan]

Update... and tonite I rebooted same machine and -24 fails.... but again -17
boots right up

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:27 AM, brian mullan
<bmullan.mail at gmail.com>wrote:

> First, as I'd said in the bug report... its a hit or miss whether the newer
> kernels (post -17) boot completely or not.
>
> This morning... the very same *2.6.32-24* kernel booted right up first
> time?   Last night I tried a dozen times both cold and warm boot and it
> would never get to login screen just the blinking cursor then a blank
> screen.
>
> Running Repair did little more than that except I could at least do a
> ctrl-alt-del to reboot instead of a hard reset.
>
> This has been a random problem with every kernel since *2.6.32-17* which
> has always booted up.  So the only thing my "bug" report was filed for was
> to perhaps give a timeframe for when the problem was introduced.    I've
> seen on the ubuntu forums that many people are seeing this same issue or at
> least one very similar to it.   The descriptions vary but when I read the
> text about frozen boot, or boots to a blank screen etc. most sounded like
> the same issue.
>
> Anyway... I sent the debug info just now.
>
> You can close this bug if you want I just was hoping to give you guys the
> timeframe.
>
> thanks.
> Brian
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Mitch Towner <
> mitch.towner.ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>> kernels after 2.6.32-17 have random failures in booting
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