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On 7 May, Roger Mason wrote: |
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> Hello Andrea, |
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> Andrea Conti <alyf@××××.net> writes: |
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>> I would check the processor type setting (A 3GHz Celeron should be |
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>> P4-based) and/or muck around with ACPI. Also try disabling framebuffer |
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>> drivers and using a plain VGA console. |
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>> Leave all advanced settings in your bios to their defaults. |
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>> And no, EM64T just means it *can* run amd64 -- i686 is fine and IMO a |
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>> lot better for that kind of hardware if you do not absolutely need to |
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>> run 64-bit code for some reason. |
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> That is what I thought. |
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> I looked into the BIOS: no AHCI support. I edited the genkernel .config |
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> and set the various SATA drivers as built-in. There seemed to be |
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> nothing wrong with grub or its configuration (I rebuilt it anyway, just |
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> in case). In the end I gave up and installed the machine as an amd64. |
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> I may know today how that turned out: my install script shuts the |
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> machine down at the end and I'll need to get someone to re-boot it for |
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> me as I'm not in the office. |
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> I'll let you know what happened. |
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> Thanks Andrea and everyone else for your help. |
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One more hint (that I've got earlier on this list) |
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Boot from a rescue CD (preferably |
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http://www.sysresccd.org/ |
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then execute |
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lspci -k |
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it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. |
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Good luck, |
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Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |