Bug 13165 – livecd freezes

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Eric Stockbridge 2003-01-03 10:47:50 UTC]

I tried the grp livecd for the athalon and it freezes every time.
it gets to:
 PCI: Using configuration type 1
then it freezes up, have tried noapic and all the other options you get when you
hit f2

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-01-03 22:34:28 UTC]

Can you please post some information about your hardware?

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-01-03 22:36:31 UTC]

Note: this is kernel xfs-sources-2.4.20_pre2

[Comment 3 Tobias Eichert 2003-01-04 10:41:08 UTC]

I'm preparing for a new xfs-sources release on Sunday. It'd be good to know your
hardware specs so I am able to track down this freezing issue.

[Comment 4 Eric Stockbridge 2003-01-04 12:07:49 UTC]

i have a compaq presario 700US laptop

900 MHz duron/256MB ram/twister video

[Comment 5 Faye Pearson 2003-01-07 09:28:42 UTC]

I've seen this happen (not with gentoo bootdisk) on a Compaq Presario 2701ea when 
acpi and (smp or local apic or io apic) are enabled together.  I wonder if acpi=no would 
solve the problem here?  The user can then build the kernel without local apic/smp and 
it should work 

[Comment 6 Tobias Eichert 2003-01-08 05:46:56 UTC]

Yes, I've heard about that, too.
Eric: Wanna give it a try with ACPI disabled?

I'll talk to Lolo..maybe he knows more about that.
If ACPI really confuses several systems we should
make it optional by either building it as modules (if
that's possible) or just by setting acpi=no as the
default boot option.

[Comment 7 Brandon Low (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 13:07:08 UTC]

ACPI is needed for many laptops... but yes turning off ACPI on this box is
probably a good idea as a test.  Also make sure that your bios is set to
non-pnp-os support when you boot w/o acpi and for pnp-os-support with botting
w/acpi.

[Comment 8 Eric Stockbridge 2003-01-09 11:35:40 UTC]

tried turning off acpi, I tried all the options listed on the cd. this is the
first time a Gentoo CD has failed to boot on that laptop.

[Comment 9 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-01-18 01:20:21 UTC]

did you happen to try the commands, noapic, and apic=off also 

[Comment 10 Eric Stockbridge 2003-01-18 18:03:30 UTC]

tried them all

[Comment 11 jwvehrs 2003-02-13 15:38:18 UTC]

I tried to used 'gentoo-basic' cd on Dell Optiplex GX240 box. I have tried all options at boot prompt. No luck.

It freezes at this point, "Uncompressing Linux . . . . Ok, booting the Kernel."

Dell Optiplex GX240 spec
------------------------
Pentium 4 1.50 GHz
256 MB RAM
RAGE 128 Pro Ultra GL AGP
Teac CD-224E
3COM 3C920 Integrated Fast Ethernet
Madge Smart 100/16/4 PCI Token-Ring

[Comment 12 Jens Schittenhelm 2003-03-19 12:32:57 UTC]

Same problem here for the 1.4rc3 livecd. The booting stops after the message "OK uncompressing the kernel". Gentoo 1.2, Knoppix, Mandrake and win2000 boot fine here. I tried out all possible options under F2.

My system specs:
IBM Aptiva Series
AMD K6 400mhz
512mb SDRAM
ATI Rage Pro AGP2x onboard
SAMSUNG 10gig hd on ide 
DC-2469 SCSI adapter and TEAC RW attached to it
ESSOLO audio clone
ne2k-pci clone

[Comment 13 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-04-15 20:50:54 UTC]

reopen if -rc4 doesnt boot the ibm, kernel opts were not working on those boxes,
removed in latest.