Strange hang in Asus CUSL2 POST

ScionAltera · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Portland, OR

I've got an Asus CUSL2 with a P3 800 CPU. 512MB SDRAM. 80G WD HD. GeForce2 Ti 200 graphics card, Toshiba DVD-ROM, Plextor 16/10/40 CD-RW. RealTek NIC, Linksys WMP11 PCI wireless.

I ran Windows 98SE and XP Pro on this box for a long time and just switched to Gentoo. Had Gentoo on my server and laptop for a long time beforehand, so I'm not really a newbie to it. The hardware has worked perfectly for a very long time in several different OSes, so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem. I just upgraded from the 1001.A BIOS to the 1009 BIOS, but this problem happened the same way in both versions.

If I use XP Pro (it's a dual boot right now, although I only use XP at LAN parties) I can reboot as normal. If I use Knoppix or the Gentoo LiveCD, or the Suse LiveCD, or a windows boot floppy, I can also reboot normally. However, rebooting from my Gentoo install, my POST gets through detecting my disk and CD drives, then hangs. I'm stumped... not sure if it could be related to LILO or APM (not using ACPI currently) or a bug in the BIOS. Maybe some obscure BIOS setting somewhere? Does anyone have any ideas?

I'm using a 2.4.25-gentoo-r2 kernel. I haven't tried using any other kernel yet, but I guess it'd be worth a shot.

Thanks in advance.

jkt · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 7:12 am Post subject:

when does it freeze? on the screen with "enery star" logo? seems to be a problem in power management...

ScionAltera · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Portland, OR

It hangs right after the energy star logo disappears. It checks the RAM, configures plug n' play, detects the HD and CD drives, and freezes. Usually it would continue on and show the list of RAM and drives it has and bring up the LILO boot menu.

jkt · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

try to upgrade your BIOS.
I have similar problem on 1.3GHz Athlon - when I I shut down XP, machine powers on automagicall after about 5 seconds, but not after `/sbin/poweroff` from Gentoo. But I don't care now because the XPs are gone ;-)

ScionAltera · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Portland, OR

I upgraded to the latest BIOS for the CUSL2 board, 1009. Doesn't seem to help. I have tried reconfiguring my kernel with and without APM, ACPI, APIC... just about every way I can think of. Starting to think I may just be doomed to having to power cycle every time I want to restart it

jkt · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject:

a) don't reboot ;-)

b) get kernel configuration from knoppix (boot knoppix, it's in /usr/src/linux/.config, afaik) and try if it works with -gentoo kernel. if not, it is problem of some gentoo-related patches. and if it works, try to find out which difference makes problems. but you'll need a _lot_ of time...

Odin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 92

Weird, I've got almost the same board (CUSL2-C) and I've never had a problem with it. Also using 1009 bios.

I can post my kernel config if you'd like (but I'm using 2.6).

ScionAltera · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Portland, OR

Just thought I'd update with my progress... I tried with a vanilla 2.4 kernel with the same config as my gentoo kernel and got the same behavior. I'm planning on trying a 2.6 gentoo kernel next. Maybe the problem has been fixed in the newer kernel.