Sunwatcher Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 (I'm not sure if I'm in the right forum for this, but. . .) I'm getting a kernel panic and freeze when Mandriva 2010 first begins. The Grub screen comes up and then when booting begins things freeze. There is a reference to a "panic" in the onscreen boot msgs. When I restart, things seem to boot just fine, though sometimes the panic recurs. This behaviour is rather consistent: initial panic followed by successful boot. Once started, Mandriva seems to run without any problems. I am still rather new to linux. I'm running 2010, using Gnome, on an HP NC2400 laptop. I don't really know how to address this problem. Is there a boot log some place that might tell me what is happening? Are there tests I can run? What causes kernel panics anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 You can check /var/log/messages after starting your computer. Also check dmesg for any abnormalities. A panic can occur for numerous reasons, even something as simple as being unable to mount your / partition for some misconfigured reason can cause it. We will need much more info though to help you with this, as kernel panic doesn't give us much to go by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted May 27, 2010 Report Share Posted May 27, 2010 It sounds like "speedboot" The first boot fails so it's disabled but the next boot succeeds so it's re-enabled. Try a search on how to disable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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