Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

On 2025-02-01 12:39, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:07:49AM -0700, g...@extremeground.com wrote: On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: BTW: the same happens with the previous kernel. Also, this is a Debian/Buster server running on AMD64 hardware. I've fsck'd th

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

On Sat, Feb 01, 2025 at 10:07:49AM -0700, g...@extremeground.com wrote: > On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: > > BTW: the same happens with the previous kernel. Also, this is a > Debian/Buster server running on AMD64 hardware. I've fsck'd the partition > and it's fine. > > I reboo

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables [RESOLVED]

On 2025-02-01 11:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a ch

Re: boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

On 2025-02-01 09:29, g...@extremeground.com wrote: I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a ch

boot fails very early with a systemd-service message about failing to load kernel variables

I get the message right after the boot sequence declares the / drive clean. The subject message repeats 3 times then the system boot stops. It still responds to the keyboard but there is no system to log into. When I go into the system in a chroot after booting with systemrescue, I find that j

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable SOLVED

I'm pretty sure you can bind mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /run, chroot and then update-initramfs to regen. Thanks Tim. You make it sound so simple. I searched for "chroot to mounted disk to update initramfs" and found several detailed descriptions of the process. https://forums.debian.net/viewtop

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

I'm pretty sure you can bind mount /proc, /sys, /dev, /run, chroot and then update-initramfs to regen. Thanks Tim. You make it sound so simple. I searched for "chroot to mounted disk to update initramfs" and found several detailed descriptions of the process. https://forums.debian.net/viewto

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

On Thu, 23 Nov 2023, Andy Dorman wrote: I have not yet figured out how to fix our two broken servers since we can't boot them to update them. Since we have several identical running servers and can mount and manipulate the file system of the dead servers, is it possible to just copy a good in

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 4:09 PM Andy Dorman wrote: > > I have continued to research this and I think I found the problem. > > I also think the dbus update timing mentioned in the subject is entirely > coincidental. I hope I haven't caused any unnecessary excitement or work > for anyone in the dbus

Re: Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

I have continued to research this and I think I found the problem. I also think the dbus update timing mentioned in the subject is entirely coincidental. I hope I haven't caused any unnecessary excitement or work for anyone in the dbus package team. My apologies if I did. A few months back we

Boot fails to load network or USB, piix4_smbus - SMBus Host Controller, after update to dbus (1.14.10-3) unstable

This may actually be a usrmerge problem, both usrmerge and usr-is-merged (>= 38~) are installed). But I do not know enough about how firmware controllers are loaded during boot to determine which package, dbus or usrmerge, I should submit a bug report to. We have multiple old (14+ years) Tyan

Re: Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

Am 23.01.19 um 16:56 schrieb Felix Miata: > Robert Pommrich composed on 2019-01-23 15:58 (UTC+0100): > >> I checked and indeed found it a Richland one. > >> But no combination of radeon.si_support and amdgpu.si_support helped. > ... >>Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: ati,radeon (

Re: Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

Robert Pommrich composed on 2019-01-23 15:58 (UTC+0100): > I checked and indeed found it a Richland one. > But no combination of radeon.si_support and amdgpu.si_support helped. ... >Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: > modesetting,fbdev,vesa) ... >

Re: Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

Hi Felix, Am 22.01.19 um 12:33 schrieb Felix Miata: > Robert Pommrich composed on 2019-01-22 08:47 (UTC+0100): > >> Since the upgrade from jessie to stretch and despite several kernel >> upgrades from backports I am bitten by the bug described here: > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Re: Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

Robert Pommrich composed on 2019-01-22 08:47 (UTC+0100): > Since the upgrade from jessie to stretch and despite several kernel > upgrades from backports I am bitten by the bug described here: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914517 > I am running the stretch system with the ol

Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

Hi, Since the upgrade from jessie to stretch and despite several kernel upgrades from backports I am bitten by the bug described here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914517 I am running the stretch system with the old 3.16 kernel from jessie. Could please someone have a look

Re: Re: Boot fails after power outage

Darac, thanks, will try when I can spare the down time.

Re: Boot fails after power outage

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:42:45PM -0400, Bill Horton wrote: Debian 9.5 on Dell Poweredge T310. After power outage, during boot, got the below messages on the console: Loading Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... /dev/sda3: clean, 279518/18317312 files, 11798527/73242112 blocks 6

Re: Boot fails after power outage

Bill Horton wrote: > Any thoughts on how to fix > the problem so I can put /backup back in FSTAB fsck?

Boot fails after power outage

Debian 9.5 on Dell Poweredge T310. After power outage, during boot, got the below messages on the console: Loading Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 ... Loading initial ramdisk ... /dev/sda3: clean, 279518/18317312 files, 11798527/73242112 blocks 6.912603] ACPI Error: SMBus/IPMI/GenericSerialBus write requires

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

Bill Brelsford wrote: > Lilo has always met my needs well, so, although I've considered > grub, I've never felt the need to switch.  But it was one of the > next steps I was considering in this case -- especially if the > problem turned out to be lilo. if there was no need grub would not exist -

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

On Fri Oct 13 2017 at 01:20 AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Bill Brelsford wrote: > > > This doesn't explain why I got the EBDA message in the first place, > > but all is working now.. > > once again the question: why not use grub? Lilo has always met my needs well, so, although I've considered grub

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

Bill Brelsford wrote: > This doesn't explain why I got the EBDA message in the first place, > but all is working now.. once again the question: why not use grub?

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

On Mon Oct 09 2017 at 12:50 AM +0200, Bill Brelsford wrote: > After the stretch 9.2 kernel upgrade to 4.9.0-4, lilo gives, at > boot, "EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" > and freezes. Problem solved. This is a dual-boot system, with the Win 10 bootloader passing control

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

Bill Brelsford wrote: > Suggestions? grub

New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

After the stretch 9.2 kernel upgrade to 4.9.0-4, lilo gives, at boot, "EBDA is big; kernel setup stack overlaps LILO second stage" and freezes. Steps: - After upgrading, I installed irqbalance before re-booting. - Lilo then gave "Loading linux" followed by a line and a half of "." an

Re: Re: Boot fails after stretch upgrade to linux 4.9.0

As an alternative solution to disabling nvidia optimus from BIOS, another off-list exchange suggested to force disabling nouveau runtime power-managment. Create a file /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf and add the following to it: options nouveau runpm=0 Then reboot. Works for me (kernel: linux 4.

Re: Boot fails after stretch upgrade to linux 4.9.0

On 2017-02-04 19:26, Francesco Montanari wrote: To sum up: - using linux 4.8.0. I notice no problem. - When I first booted linux 4.9.0, I got a TPM error message that I never had before. Disabling the security chip from BIOS solved it. - The system does not boot as it gets stucked after loadi

Re: Boot fails after stretch upgrade to linux 4.9.0

Hi, I may have not copied the correct error message when the system freezes after passing lspci in recovery mode (unless the message changed). I report below the corrected message. To sum up: - using linux 4.8.0. I notice no problem. - When I first booted linux 4.9.0, I got a TPM error message th

Boot fails after stretch upgrade to linux 4.9.0

Hi, With a recent Stretch update, linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 was installed. I got: A TPM error (6) occurred attempting to read a pcr value Disabling the security chip from BIOS solved the error. Still, 4.9.0 does not boot. It manages to start some service (e.g., network manager), but then it gets stuc

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Pierre Couderc a écrit : > Le 04/12/2014 09:30, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : >> In parted on a GPT disk, the "boot" flag identifies an EFI system >> partition. An alias is "esp". As Simon suggested, you can toggle the >> flag (with parted, not fdisk) and check whether the system can boot again. >> >>

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 04/12/2014 09:30, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Pierre Couderc a écrit : jessie : Model: ATA Crucial_CT480M50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 480GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start EndSizeFile system Name Flags 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB f

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 02/12/2014 23:27, Pierre Couderc a écrit : Hello I have a problem with jessie : my Acer Travelmate (P253) refuses to boot. After many unsuccessful trials... After a break of 2 days (in a monastery)... After a new trial of install, it miraculously boots and works very fine! I suppose so

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Pierre Couderc a écrit : > One big difference is that after jessie installation boot flag has > disappeared : gpt : > > wheezy : > > Model: ATA Crucial_CT480M50 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sda: 480GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > Partition Table: gpt > > Number Start EndSizeF

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 03/12/2014 20:45, Simon Hollenbach a écrit : In fact, it seems to me that the disk is not read, but it tries to net boot. Why do you think it tries to boot from a network? Because it is displayed. Again, I don't think filing a bug without any info but "it doesn't work" will get your prob

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Hi again, On 03/12/14 08:56, Pierre Couderc wrote: Le 03/12/2014 07:58, Simon Hollenbach a écrit : you might want to dig further into this, Mmm, what is my other choice ? W8 ? Ubuntu ? I was talking about reporting a bug when you don't know what's wrong. But indeed, there are other choices i

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 03/12/2014 10:07, Curt a écrit : On 2014-12-02, Pierre Couderc wrote: A Secure Boot and Fast Boot in the UEFI problem, perhaps? Did you say whether you were dual booting? Anything here that helps? I said "No alternate OS..." ;) It is smallest installation possible. Thank you PC -- To UNS

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

One big difference is that after jessie installation boot flag has disappeared : gpt : wheezy : Model: ATA Crucial_CT480M50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 480GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start EndSizeFile system Name Flags 1 1049kB 512

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

On 2014-12-02, Pierre Couderc wrote: > Hello > > I have a problem with jessie : my Acer Travelmate (P253) refuses to boot. > A Secure Boot and Fast Boot in the UEFI problem, perhaps? Did you say whether you were dual booting? Anything here that helps? http://superuser.com/questions/714856/tryi

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 03/12/2014 07:58, Simon Hollenbach a écrit : Sent this to Pierre's private mail first. Sorry. Hi Pierre, you might want to dig further into this, Mmm, what is my other choice ? W8 ? Ubuntu ? as I can't see how a developer could fix the error you are experiencing without more information.

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Sent this to Pierre's private mail first. Sorry. Hi Pierre, you might want to dig further into this, as I can't see how a developer could fix the error you are experiencing without more information. Have you tried chrooting into the unbootable system from an install cd's rescue mode? Is there

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 03/12/2014 06:24, Charlie a écrit : On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:04:00 +0100 Pierre Couderc sent: Save the file and the do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. When this is complete and everything is configured. I did that. But I had to repeat the upgrade operation many times until I get a cl

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:04:00 +0100 Pierre Couderc sent: > > Save the file and the do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. > > When this is complete and everything is configured. > I did that. But I had to repeat the upgrade operation many times > until I get a clear system with no more packe

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Le 03/12/2014 01:17, Charlie a écrit : Thank you very much ! On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:27:13 +0100 Pierre Couderc sent: 1- install wheezy, all is ok, I boot and boot again. I change it to jessie (following standard instructions) This may not help at all because things may have changed in the

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 23:27:13 +0100 Pierre Couderc sent: > 1- install wheezy, all is ok, I boot and boot again. I change it to > jessie (following standard instructions) This may not help at all because things may have changed in the last couple of months, but I'll give it a larrup. I don't kno

boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

Hello I have a problem with jessie : my Acer Travelmate (P253) refuses to boot. I have used 2 methods : 1- install wheezy, all is ok, I boot and boot again. I change it to jessie (following standard instructions) : I can boot no more 2- I have used net installer debian-jessie-DI-b2-amd64-neti

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: BIOS bugs. A BIOS bug is surely involved, but that's not enough to explain the facts: After 4 years without any problem, a BIOS setting suddently changes, the BIOS being the same since the beginning (no BIOS update) For any software, a bug needs a

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >You are correct. The BIOS has an ordering. The OS has an ordering. > >They are separate software and will each do their own thing. I have > >often had problems with the BIOS disk ordering being different form > >the OS disk ordering. > > my concer

Re: boot fails on wheezy

On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Kailash wrote: You could try using this tool thatll help you fix most of your boot issues: http://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/ may be useful, but what is the advantage over the reacue option of the squeeze or wheezy install cd? Anyway, in my case, there wa

Re: boot fails on wheezy

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 09:17:44 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 iun 13, 07:04:29, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, > > After that, impossible to boot. Even the "grub loading" message is > > absent.Booting with the wheezy install cd in r

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: You are correct. The BIOS has an ordering. The OS has an ordering. They are separate software and will each do their own thing. I have often had problems with the BIOS disk ordering being different form the OS disk ordering. my concern is not disk ord

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > the problem was with the BIOS boot sequence, and as far as I know, > this is totally independant of any OS. You are correct. The BIOS has an ordering. The OS has an ordering. They are separate software and will each do their own thing. I have often had problems with

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

On Ma, 04 iun 13, 16:39:05, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > sorry, but I think that you didn't understand: my BIOS perfectly detects all > existing drives, as > 1/ they are all listed in the BIOS "general" and "hard disc" menus > 2/ I was able to put the good one in the boot sequence. The BIO

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

hi Dan, On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Dan Ritter wrote: BIOS settings are all too often corrupted. I have two Intel motherboards that need BIOS re-checked any time they have an unexpected power outage. that can't be my case, as I have an UPS, and no power failure long enough to exhaust the UPS batter

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:39:05 +0800, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: Okay, understood what you mean. Your bios did not detect both drives and the first drive it detected was put into the boot sequence. sorry, but I think that you didn't understand: my BIOS p

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: Okay, understood what you mean. Your bios did not detect both drives and the first drive it detected was put into the boot sequence. sorry, but I think that you didn't understand: my BIOS perfectly detects all existing drives, as 1/ they are all list

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:09:15 +0800, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: The allocation of disk numbering (sda, sdb...or (hd0, hd1...) is done by bios and the OS will use whatever the bios determine. Also this numbering is not consistent with each reboot. We should

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

On Tue, 4 Jun 2013, Goh Lip wrote: The allocation of disk numbering (sda, sdb...or (hd0, hd1...) is done by bios and the OS will use whatever the bios determine. Also this numbering is not consistent with each reboot. We should always set "master" and "slave" for jumper wires or use correct

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED

On 06/04/2013 02:29 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2013, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, . . . At last I found the explanation, which seems rather incredible: In my BIOS settings, the boot sequence has been modified, the 1

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED

On Mon, 4 Jun 2013, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, . . . At last I found the explanation, which seems rather incredible: In my BIOS settings, the boot sequence has been modified, the 1st internal disc (ST3250410AS) being replaced by th

Re: boot fails on wheezy

On Ma, 04 iun 13, 07:04:29, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, > After that, impossible to boot. Even the "grub loading" message is > absent.Booting with the wheezy install cd in rescue mode, I tried > almost all the known What about the option

boot fails on wheezy

After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, After that, impossible to boot. Even the "grub loading" message is absent.Booting with the wheezy install cd in rescue mode, I tried almost all the known tricks to recover (except "sudo grub", as now the grub executable no more exist

boot fails on wheezy

After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, After that, impossible to boot. Even the "grub loading" message is absent.Booting with the wheezy install cd in rescue mode, I tried almost all the known tricks to recover (except "sudo grub", as now the grub executable no more exist

OT? - Debian on eeePC? boot fails

Asus eeepc A friend brought it to me to see if I could update Firefox & Flash. I started by using the built-in software update tool, but that didn't give me much joy. I finally figured out how to get into a terminal window, and I did an aptitude update and aptitude dist-upgrade. Had some fail

Re: Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/04/11 at 05:44pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I am running Lenny with LVM.  Last night the system locked completely. >>  No mouse movement.  No keystroke entry.  Nothing.  I don't like to >> power down without a proper shutdown, but I did n

Re: Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var

On 06/04/11 at 05:44pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am running Lenny with LVM. Last night the system locked completely. > No mouse movement. No keystroke entry. Nothing. I don't like to > power down without a proper shutdown, but I did not seem to have a lot > of choice. This morning, when I trie

Boot fails during fschk of /dev/vg1/var

I am running Lenny with LVM. Last night the system locked completely. No mouse movement. No keystroke entry. Nothing. I don't like to power down without a proper shutdown, but I did not seem to have a lot of choice. This morning, when I tried to boot up I got an fschk on several partitions.

Re: Boot fails at: starting FAM ... ...

Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't restart my Woody with a custom 2.4.18 without it hanging at > this point. [...] > The systen hang's at this point. [...] > How do I mount and edit the startup sequence to avoid this? You can either boot the system into single user mode or boot f

Boot fails at: starting FAM ... ...

I can't restart my Woody with a custom 2.4.18 without it hanging at this point. ~much complaining about firewall rules that cannot be started, do you need to insmod? and like~ touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/bastille-firewall': No such file or directory Starting file alteration monitor: FAM Th

boot fails with "kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped"

Hello I've not re-booted my machine for a while and have been regularly upgrading to unstable. I built a new kernel and re-booted. During the re-boot it displayed the message: kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped about 5 times and stops. None of my old kernels will boot (a

Re: Boot fails

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 04:22:52PM -, bloodshot wrote: > I'm running potato and everything's been fine for the last couple of months > until the other day when I had to shut down for an evening. I have > upgraded/installed several programs since the original installation, but > unfortunately as

Boot fails

I'm running potato and everything's been fine for the last couple of months until the other day when I had to shut down for an evening. I have upgraded/installed several programs since the original installation, but unfortunately as everything seemed to function OK I never noted any details. I thin

Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: > > While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or > > resc1440-safe.bin > > disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI > > initialization. It gets this far: > > I am h

Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote: : On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: : > While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin : > disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI : > initialization. It gets this far: : > ...

Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

I've got anunofficial installation diskset which is set up specifically for the aic7xxx driver, that will most likely take care of your problem. You can find it at . On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 07:05:21PM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote: > While booting an A

Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

, Tom Kuiper wrote: > Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:05:21 PDT > From: Tom Kuiper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init > Resent-Date: 4 Sep 1999 02:12:15 - > Resent-Fro

recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init

While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI initialization. It gets this far: ... (scsi0) found at PCI 14/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer c

re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

I previously wrote: > Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return at the > 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux 1.2.13 runs fine. Additional info: after hitting return I get from 3 to 6 dots and then a 'bad disk' message. The disk is not bad, howeve

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996 14:20:06 -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote: >most cases hardware will be blamed, even though the problem appears on >a variety of memory/CPU/motherboard/add-on configurations, and the same >configurations can run other OSs (*including* older versions of Linux) The external ca

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

On Aug 11, 7:25pm, Bruce Perens wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : From: "Christopher R. Hertel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > On my system (brand-new AMD-486DX4-120), the error that I get tells : > me that the failure is occurri

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

On Aug 9, 8:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return : at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux : 1.2.13 runs fine. : I suspec

Re: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

On Aug 9, 8:18am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33 : : Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return : at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux : 1.2.13 runs fine. : : I s

installation boot fails with standard bootdisk on 486SX/33

Installation fails on this old machine shortly after hitting return at the 'Boot Parameters' prompt using the standard bootdisk. Linux 1.2.13 runs fine. I suspect (based upon bug reports) that APM is enabled in the kernel on the standard bootdisk and that this is the problem. I propose to install