On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 09:14:33 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > On 7/11/15, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > > > >> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be > >> gentle and use words without too many syllables. > >> > >> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current > >> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP > >> 6000. I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete > >> uneventfully. However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no > >> support for this CPU vendor" error. > > > > We suppose "tanks" means "something very unexpected happened" but also > > we need to know what you saw during the booting and how the machine > > behaved. > > Now that I'm fresh, it seems less obvious that the error I reported above > is what's killing it. Here's the whole boot-to-crash process: > > The GRUB bootloader splash screen appears, and after a few seconds > it proceeds to load the default, Debian GNU/Linux. Then it homes the > cursor and says: > > Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-586 > Loading initial ramdisk > > Then the screen clears (i.e goes back to text mode) and it reports: > > [2.91457 (this number varies)] microcode: no support for this CPU vendor > > Then it does some fscking, then: > > [numbers] longhaul: option "enable" not set. Aborting. > > The screen clears again, sometimes - not always - the login prompt > appears for just a flash, then the machine evidently crashes - there's a > screen blank, a flash of random character data, another blanking, then > (after about a minute) what I suppose you folks would call a WSOD > appears - white screen, frowny face, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. > A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a > system administrator" message. And that's where it stays until I hit the > reset.
A nice account. At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and add longhaul.enable=1 to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/11072015165517.fba2527f1...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
