public inbox for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrea Conti <alyf@alyf.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 09:07:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE3BC4D.3000400@alyf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <264561CB-EDC4-46DA-8048-3333FDE076E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

> Are you sure ext[234] is compiled statically into the kernel in this
> .config?
> Also the drivers for the EIDE / SATA controller.

Missing FS and/or controller drivers will result in a regular kernel
boot with a panic at the end, when it's time to mount root and load init.

In this case grubs seems to load the kernel image, but the kernel hangs
before printing anything.

I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be
P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer
drivers and using a plain VGA console.

Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults.

And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a
lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to
run 64-bit code for some reason.

andrea



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-07  7:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-06  8:37 [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Roger Mason
2010-05-06 11:52 ` Mick
2010-05-06 12:38   ` Roger Mason
2010-05-06 12:51     ` Mick
2010-05-06 13:03     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 13:34       ` Dale
2010-05-06 14:06         ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 15:03           ` Dale
2010-05-06 15:25             ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 16:03               ` Dale
2010-05-07  6:28                 ` Mick
2010-05-07  8:22                   ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-06 14:19     ` Roger Mason
2010-05-09 21:46       ` Walter Dnes
2010-05-10 15:18         ` [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure [solved] Roger Mason
2010-05-07  8:51   ` [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Peter Humphrey
2010-05-06 14:25 ` Stroller
2010-05-06 15:37   ` Roger Mason
2010-05-06 16:03     ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-06 16:48     ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-07  7:07   ` Andrea Conti [this message]
2010-05-07 10:03     ` Roger Mason
2010-05-07 11:30       ` Helmut Jarausch
2010-05-07 13:33         ` Roger Mason
2010-05-08 14:16           ` [gentoo-user] Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label claude angéloz
2010-05-08 19:30             ` Mick
2010-05-10 16:01             ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 20:00               ` Mick
2010-05-12 20:47                 ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 21:47                   ` Mick
2010-05-12 21:59                     ` Paul Hartman
2010-05-12 22:22             ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-05-13 21:08               ` Stroller
2010-05-13 22:12                 ` Mick
2010-05-13 23:21                   ` walt
2010-05-14 11:34                     ` Tanstaafl
2010-05-14 12:23                       ` Neil Bothwick
2010-05-14 14:45                         ` Tanstaafl
2010-05-15 14:58                           ` walt

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4BE3BC4D.3000400@alyf.net \
    --to=alyf@alyf.net \
    --cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox