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Seiken
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 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 7:57 pm Post subject: Splash screen freezes after kernel load |
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Downloaded, MD5SUM checked, and burned the Minimal LiveCD.
I put the CD in and reboot. At the "boot:" prompt, I hit enter and a couple lines go by. Then, a full-screen Gentoo splash comes up with an empty status bar... then it hangs. The status bar doesn't budge. There is no hard drive or CDROM activity. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Seiken
PS: If any of this helps, I'm running: Soltek SLDRS2 motherboard, 512MB RAM, Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, MSI GeForce2 MX400 64MB, SBLive. Not sure what other information I should provide given the situation :\ |
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bkunlimited
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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| try to play with the kernel options. maybe try to load the live cd w/o framebuffer (kernel: gentoo-nofb) and try to switch of acpi, firewire, hotplug and check if it boots. then try to switch back the options one after another to determine the blocker |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: Splash screen freezes after kernel load |
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| Seiken wrote: | | Then, a full-screen Gentoo splash comes up with an empty status bar... then it hangs. The status bar doesn't budge. There is no hard drive or CDROM activity. |
I am assuming that you have waited for at least 10 seconds for the keymap prompt (running in the background) to automatically continue.
You can press F2 in the boot screen to see exactly what is causing the hang. Right now, the info you have given us is a little sketchy to determine what the cause is. |
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Seiken
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 1:37 am Post subject: |
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I have waited much longer than 10 seconds. Thank you for telling me about F2 (I didn't know you could do that).
When I hit F2, here is the screen output if I boot from my CDROM or DVDRAM (I removed the successful stuff from the top of the screen, so this stuff starts about half way down):
| Code: | fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 0
hda: WDC WD800JB-00CRA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
using deadline io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7, 0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4040B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: KENWOOD CD-ROM UCR-412 V124I, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177, 0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128 KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache,
CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(66)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512 kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdc: lost interrupt |
...and those last 2 lines (ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out, and hdc: lost interrupt) just keep repeating every 30 seconds or so.
If I boot from my DVDROM instead, I only get:
| Code: | fbsplash: switched splash state to 'on' on console 0
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdc: lost interrupt
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdc: lost interrupt
ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
hdc: lost interrupt
ide-cd: cmd 0x3 timed out
hdc: lost interrupt |
...and I dont know how many repeats on that one because I didn't wait around to find out.
I haven't tried any other kernels or kernel options yet. Going to wait and see what this means first. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:16 am Post subject: |
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Can you try booting with the ide=nodma option? At the boot: prompt, enter:
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Seiken
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| kimchi_sg wrote: | Can you try booting with the ide=nodma option? At the boot: prompt, enter:
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Just tried and got the same messages. Also tried acpi=on to see and got the same messages again. I hope this doesn't mean Gentoo doesn't like my DVDRAM  |
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Seiken
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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| any other suggestions, or should I just try the universal CD instead? |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:02 am Post subject: |
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How about disabling all the hardware detection in one shot and see if it boots? You can always re-enable them one by one later to eliminate the culprit:
| Code: | | boot: gentoo ide=nodma nofirewire nodetect nousb nodhcp nohotplug noapic |
P.S. If this works, don't expect to have the network card auto-detected. Reboot and remove the "nodhcp" to have it try to setup the network. |
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Seiken
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks. I'll try tonight and let you know how it goes. |
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kimchi_sg
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 12:07 am Post subject: |
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Keep trying , it will work!  |
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Seiken
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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It was "noapic"!!  Thanks... it booted fine, but I had some errors during configuration. I will start a different thread for that since the topic of this one has been solved. |
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