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 > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 >
