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Subject: Re: Kernel freezing....
To: jcarminati@yahoo.com (Jorge Carminati)
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:35:04 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> installed two times Red Hat in this notebook during this week, and no
> freeze was suffered during the whole installation process, which is a
> process that as you know requires almost an hour to complete.
> 
> I?m just asking why the kernel doesn?t freeze during the installation
> process (which it is supposed to run Linux I suspect :) ) and just
> after booting and typing some commands in init 1 mode, it freezes;
> quite strange. 

At least one possible cause is that the runtime kernels will use APM power
management and other facilities that the install kernel intentionally avoids
because a tiny number of boxes have it broken.

You can boot with extra boot options (apm=off I believe it is) to disable
APM use.
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