Re: ZX6000 hangs on boot of Debian 10.0

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the quick reply. No luck I'm afraid; I tried a couple of images
with kernel 4.9.0 but they hang ~20 sec after boot start (but always at
exactly the same point, unlike kernel 5.7.0 that hang at random points).
But, I'll keep going through them just in case I find one working.

John

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:04 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John!
>
> On 10/7/20 11:39 AM, John Vakonakis wrote:
> > I'm new to this list so apologies if this is well covered ground. I
> > recently got a ZX6000 box (2x1.3GHz McKinley, 4GB RAM) and installed the
> > most recent Debian image (2020-08-19). Installation went fine, but the
> > system hangs at boot after GRUB loads the kernel (5.7.0-2-mckinley) at
> > seemingly random points. Sometimes the hang is immediate as soon as
> ramdisk
> > is loaded, sometime it makes it for ~20 seconds. Most often there is no
> > error message, but occasionally I see this message:
> > " watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 22s!"
>
> I suggest using an older image, preferably with a 4.19.x kernel which are
> known
> to be more stable on some machines [1].
>
> Adrian
>
> > [1]
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-07-16/debian-10.0-ia64-NETINST-1.iso
>
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