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I had a question related to the amd64 minimal livecd. |
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What exactly is happening at the "Unpacking firmware" stage of the boot |
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process? |
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Is there a way to find out exactly what firmware is being loaded? Or a way |
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to boot without loading the firmware? |
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Why? It is a somewhat strange reason. I am having issues with a high-pitched |
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hum coming from the audio jacks (occurs on both MB sound and a creative |
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sound card) |
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I have a very nice sound system (a sound board, studio monitors...I am an |
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audio hobbyist), and no other system has these problems, so I am relatively |
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sure that it is not the speakers/cables. |
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I have been booting from the liveCD, and I have pinpointed the point at |
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which the hum starts to something near the *Unpacking firmware stage. |
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I realize this is somewhat esoteric, but it renders my system almost |
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useless, and would greatly appreciate any input. |
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I did interactive mode. The interactive mode only prompts for some of the |
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items. Among the items it does not prompt for is the firmware unpacking. It |
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just goes and does it. |
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Colleen Josephson |
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Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Class of 2013 |
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