From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OALmT-0001gn-GB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 11:31:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1F4FE073E; Fri, 7 May 2010 11:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95EA3E073E for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 11:30:33 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0L2100LQ5RYWU430@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 13:30:32 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.52,348,1270418400"; d="scan'208";a="56673786" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 07 May 2010 13:30:32 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id o47BUWum015223 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 13:30:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 9E0A1C9E; Fri, 07 May 2010 13:30:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 13:30:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: Message-id: References: <264561CB-EDC4-46DA-8048-3333FDE076E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4BE3BC4D.3000400@alyf.net> X-Archives-Salt: 9515d266-f215-4c50-bcbe-5e655eab496e X-Archives-Hash: 9a5828c06405b913622c1a3ed9913d9d On 7 May, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello Andrea, > > Andrea Conti 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