FWIW, the systems I'm having this problem with are Zotac IONITX-A-U boards (http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-a-u-atom-n330-1-6ghz-dual-core-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html).
Since, as I described, loading the forcedeth driver in SL61 makes /sbin/loader SIGSEGV, I would not be surprised if it was a driver probing issue with either forcedeth or ath_pci or one of its dependencies - probably something stranger, since the FMV-A8260 has a Marvell 1000BASE-T chip and an Atheros wifi chip, but loading just forcedeth without ath_pci in play causes it to die, so... - Rich 2011/8/2 夜神 岩男 <[email protected]>: >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Troy Dawson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Can you post the top half of your kickstart file, up to the Packages >>> section. > > For what its worth I've been doing installs across about 20 different system > configurations lately and the PXE boot and DVD boot (same boot kernel > anyway, and not using kickstart -- all of these are specific installations; > yes a pain) hangs consistently in this precise way. Black and unresponsive > before networking is on. This happens on exactly one specific model I've > found so far out of the pack: Fujitsu FMV-8260 latops with (specifically) > Celeron 540 processors and Intel GL960 Express chipset. > (Spec link: http://www.fmworld.net/biz/fmv/lifebook/0804/a8260/ ) > > I haven't had time to research this further and didn't want to before > posting to list (I've got a lot of other things on my plate first anyway), > but this is the exact same set of symptoms I've seen, so thought it worthy > of note. It is that exact model, and not its cousins. Both notebooks of this > model demonstrate the same behavior, so it really seems to be something > architectural that isn't being supported properly by the kernel (and the > noprobe behavior makes me think this as well...). > > -Iwao >
