Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007, Robert Alcock wrote: > > >> Any more ideas? >> > > It's also possible the irqpoll thing is a red herring. > > If you can't get a machine to boot the linux kernel, in my experience it's > always worth trying booting with: > > noapic acpi=off > > and in your case possibly > > noapic acpi=off irqpoll > > Gavin > > > I forgot to say that a bar saying "loading Linux Kernel 0-100%" appears before any of these messages. Also, a message (which I missed before) pops up for about 1/10 second just before the machine crashes, saying "Trying to enable the frame buffer..."
I got the boot options wrong before because some of them were hidden. The full list is as follows: file=/crdom/preseed/edubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram rw quiet -- I put "irqpoll" before the --, and also at the very beginning of the options list; it made no difference. I put "noapic acpi=off" in the options list. That got rid of the four lines about irqpoll (hurrah!), but everything else was the same: i.e. it now said starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd followed by Trying to enable the frame buffer... and it crashed. If I do the same thing but without the "quiet", so the options list is as follows file=/crdom/preseed/edubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram rw noapic acpi=off -- Then I get reams of stuff that I don't understand, followed by starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd The screen goes blank again, up pops Trying to enable the frame buffer... The rest is silence. Robert -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
