Freeze on boot on PCI probing

Kiryoku · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 7

Hello.
I want to install Gentoo on my laptop Toshiba Satellite A40-121, but I have a problem.

I tryed with the 2006.0 LiveCD and all was fine until I reboot on the new system just installed (kernel compiled with Genkernel), but the boot freezes on the ACPI lines. I tried to use "noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=routeirq" but it still freeze, on the "Probing PCI devices" line.

Later, I tried the 2006.1 LiveCD and I have the same error during the boot of this LiveCD O_o
I supposed that there is a problem in latests kernels.

Did someone heard about that? Is there a solution ? How can I use an older kernel ?

Thank you

nixnut · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject:

Have you tried nodetect already?
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TobyWan · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 14

I'm having similar problems with my new Toshiba Portege M400, and I have tried the nodetect option. Enabling the debug option doesn't provide any more useful information either.

TobyWan · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 14

Hmmmm.... I can get it to boot by using the pci=off and acpi=off options (the framebuffer works OK). However, I assume this means I won't be able to set up the ethernet card, so this isn't a good solution.

Is there any way to find out which pci device is causing it to hand during probing?

TobyWan · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 14

Hah. Seems the 2006.0 install CD works, whereas the 2006.1 release doesn't. There's a problem with the M400 and the 2.6.17 kernel, which is what's included in the 2006.1 release. (Both newer and older kernels work.)

Maybe trying an older release might help you too?