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 - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
