Booting with the -v and -k flags would be the place to start ('v' will
add the extra useful output, 'k' will start kmdb when the panic occurs,
which at a minimum will give you a chance to read what got printed
before the system reboots). Capturing the output with a digital camera
is useful.
- Keith
Stan Carrico wrote:
> So here?s the deal
>
> I have an Asus M2N-E motherboard, AMD64 X2 4000+ processor, 1 GB of ECC RAM.
> All devices in the system pass the driver compat test.
>
> I am running 0811 with no problems. If I try update-all on the 0811, or I try
> a live CD of 2009-06 or 1002 (have run all the way up to r126), the system
> only gets past loading the kernel, then it dumps and reboots.
>
> I have tried a large number of things including bootstrapping down to the
> minimum cards and hardware (above). I have updated and downgraded the BIOS. I
> have tried disabling ACPI, setting it to both 2 and 8 via GRUB on boot. The
> system BIOS does not allow disabling ACPI.
>
> I cannot seem to get the system to load one module at a time so I can log it
> out. Either I am doing this incorrectly (likely!) or it is crashing out
> before it even begins loading modules.
>
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. What are the proper switches to
> add to the kernel$ line in GRUB that will allow me to most helpfully debug
> this? Is this a known issue that I am missing somewhere?
>
