Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > lists wrote: >> The r1903 build of the livecd will not complete booting on a dell >> inspiron 3000. >> >> unfortunately the list of errors isn't logged, since the boot doesn't >> finish for me to save them. [ 4 screens of error messages scrolling by ] >> They consist of device not accepting id error messages. > > Looks like USB errors, should be irrelevant. I suspect that there is another > error message scrolled up by them. could be, I'll check now.
> > Also, I had a similar bug report filed to me privately (but in that case USB > messages were relevant, because of USB CD-ROM). In that case it was a BIOS > or chipset bug causing IRQs to be misrouted. The workaround for the 6.2-5 CD > was to type "linux noapic nolapic pci=noacpi acpi=off" at the boot prompt, > and I never got a response about 6.3-preX CDs. If this works for you, please > report the minimum required subset of those workarounds. > These will help to see what is going wrong. > As for inability to save boot messages: 6.3-pre2-rXXXX CDs have a debugging > shell where you can press Shift+PgUp enough times and take a photo of the > screen with your digital camera or a cellphone (due to mail size limits on > this list, please send such photos to me privately). Also, there are some > commands that you can type in the debugging shell in order to debug the > problem: > > cat /proc/modules > cat /proc/interrupts > echo /dev/* > >> I'll test the build on the other two systems I have available, both of >> which run every other livecd I have tried. > > Thanks in advance. > send another error about one already, the other works perfectly. I'll put a hardware list together for the one that worked, to match the one on the failed "kernel panic" system. Not going to rush it, a dual core am2 3800+ system it works is the important part. a hardware compatability list is the only use of the working hardware list. >> Since this is such an old system that is failing, I'm not sure if a >> properly filed bug report is needed, how many people are going to use >> such an old notebook? > > Any bug must be fixed. Your cooperation is welcome. > no problem. Jaqui -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
