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 1OAKPq-0005dX-Al for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 10:04:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9417AE06B1; Fri, 7 May 2010 10:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (mx5.mun.ca [134.153.232.57]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DA69E06B1 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 10:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from perthite.esd.mun.ca (perthite.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.125]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id o47A3GbE010387 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 07:33:16 -0230 Received: from perthite.esd.mun.ca (perthite.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.125]) by perthite.esd.mun.ca (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o47A3Frw007240 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 07:33:15 -0230 From: Roger Mason To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure References: <264561CB-EDC4-46DA-8048-3333FDE076E9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4BE3BC4D.3000400@alyf.net> Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 07:33:15 -0230 In-Reply-To: <4BE3BC4D.3000400@alyf.net> (Andrea Conti's message of "Fri, 07 May 2010 09:07:57 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.002004 (2008-01-01) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-11.4 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=3.2.4 X-Spam-Report: -10 USER_IN_WHITELIST From: address is in the user's white-list * -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 134.153.232.57 X-Archives-Salt: 7aa9161a-2bd4-4f85-af6a-e186ff0d815b X-Archives-Hash: 78e42bc91f7775f75bb539de7d6db9a8 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. Roger