Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Cursor and temperature are independant of the kernel being frozen, AFAIK. The Ctrl Alt F<n> and Num Lock and generally better indicators (though I'm not really sure for Num Lock). > > 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. Oh, do you have an USB keyboard? Then it's normal - well, not normal, it's a kernel bug (destroying the bios PS2 keyboard compatibility), but it's a known "feature" :). The USB keyboard will be unresponsive until the usb drivers are loaded :(. What's strange, is that in expert mode, before the first dialog the usb drivers should be loaded, bringing your usb keyboard back to life. I don't understand why that's not the case, especially since in stage2 you have access to it, that means that we do have your usb adapter listed in our pci listings :/. > > > 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. Sorry, I can't figure out more.. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
