I have strange case of a machine where Voidlinux fails to install correctly.
Let me start by saying that I'm using Voidlinux on several computers/VMs and I'm now getting used to setting it up. Still there is this one computer where I can't figure out what's going on. I'm installing the OS to a usb stick and the computer in question is a Core2Quad running on a X38 motherboard. Also note that a different flavor of Linux installs and runs fine on it. The install procedure itself completes without error: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s6nlWys386o/WQrnVQndiVI/AAAAAAAAC18/trGL4VhsLYQvompN7UDEgXgorbc8d8fhQCLcB/s1600/void%2Binstall%2Blog.jpg> What happens afterward it that the PC freezes at the bios level. After processor detection, freeze occurs at memory count, only the letter "M" is displayed: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T3PNnUgO3fk/WQrn6NszN4I/AAAAAAAAC2I/DIxE5EPQPg4nxtb4P42HTTFlXk0XDUOiQCLcB/s1600/bios%2Bfreeze.jpg> Void-installer boots fine but as soon as the key with newly installed Void is plugged in during BIOS screen it freezes. I tried reinstalling grub manually with verbose output and it doesn't throw an error: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YiLKCEHGyGE/WQrowWzE2RI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/4kli-ELlYrsR8r_jocwvW_sqiECDaG5pgCLcB/s1600/grub%2Binstall%2Blog.jpg>Just a bit curious about this part <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YiLKCEHGyGE/WQrowWzE2RI/AAAAAAAAC2Q/4kli-ELlYrsR8r_jocwvW_sqiECDaG5pgCLcB/s1600/grub%2Binstall%2Blog.jpg> --prefix '(,msdos1)/boot/grub' Shouldn't there be a device before the comma ? Digging a bit deeper, I analyzed MBR on that key after dumping it into nonworking.mbr file: <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N2dPfe5gMb4/WQrp5cEhR0I/AAAAAAAAC2c/IV35RNBY24ocfRrnfHn1XZUzB--hePhlgCLcB/s1600/non%2Bworking%2BMBR.jpg> What strikes me is that huge part full of zero from offsets 10 to 50. Comparing to a working installation there is plenty of data in that area. Images were also uploaded here: http://imgur.com/a/deBq0 So I'm turning to your expertise. If you have any idea or hint I'm all ears. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "voidlinux" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/voidlinux/12f56cea-a698-488c-8a85-9330d8f6c2c2%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
