Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On  7 May, Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello Andrea,
> 
> Andrea Conti <alyf@alyf.net> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> That is what I thought.
> 
> I looked into the BIOS: no AHCI support.  I edited the genkernel .config
> and set the various SATA drivers as built-in.  There seemed to be
> nothing wrong with grub or its configuration (I rebuilt it anyway, just
> in case).  In the end I gave up and installed the machine as an amd64.
> I may know today how that turned out: my install script shuts the
> machine down at the end and I'll need to get someone to re-boot it for
> me as I'm not in the office.
> 
> I'll let you know what happened.
> 
> Thanks Andrea and everyone else for your help.
> 

One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list)

Boot from a rescue CD  (preferably
http://www.sysresccd.org/
)

then execute
lspci -k

it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot.

Good luck,
Helmut.


-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany