On Monday February 17 2003 07:18 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This probly won't help, sorry ;( I booted with the b3 1st CD
> > and, <F1>, typed in 'expert'. it hung again. Altho the cursor is
> > blinkin on the screen, the system will not respond to
> > <ctl-alt-F4>, or anything else < -F*> for that matter (gave it 10
> > mins).
>
> If it doesn't respond to Ctrl Alt F4 it means the kernel is
> totally frozen :(.
Doesn't seem to be. If I let it sit on "Loading 2nd Stage" for
several minutes and do a reboot, my cpu temps are still fairly
normal. And as I said, the cursor is still blinking the whole time
the system just sits there going nowhere.
> What if you switch to console #4 right before the freeze? (at the
> time it will start to load the ramdisk) Any interesting last
> kernel messages?
>
> On my test machine, I can see no problem booting on the CD#1 with
> "expert" option..
'alt-F4', 'crtl-alt-F4', neither works. I did as you suggested
and tried F4 while the 1st stage was loading. It's like the keyboard
is lost as soon as 1st stage begins to load.
> > I mentioned in my previous post that it was 512 ram at cas2. It
> > was also set to 4-bank interleaving, ie, aggresive timings. I
> > tried again with cas3, interleaving disabled, even tried
> > underclocked to 30 mhz (pci) ...same deal ... hung on 'expert'
> > "loading second stage". Regular install option has no problems.
>
> What if you choose default bios settings?
Default is cas3 with bank-interleaving disabled, so yes, I tried
with bios defaults, tho the ram is fully capable of more aggressive
timings. Has been so in several systems.
> If it's a recent machine -> we're having trouble with acpi, did
> you try to boot with "expert acpi=off"?
I tried 'expert acpi=off', 'expert acpi=off no apic', and 'expert
acpi=off no apic mem=nopentium', all with the same result, the
systems just sits doing nothing after the "2nd stage" starts.
BTW, after the system is booted normally, crtl-alt-F* does work. The
system is almost two years old, ie, not recent.
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Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
