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Re: [PLUG] BIOS EDD -- new install hangs
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Does it happen with a different OS? Have you tried Knoppix or the
Ubuntu live CD? I had trouble like that that seemed to have been
related to a drive controller in one case and some mysterious,
unsolvable motherboard problem in the second case.
Mike Ciul wrote:
> I'm having trouble installing Ubuntu. Even during the initial install,
> the system freezes after about 5 minutes of uptime. By repeated
> attempts, I got the thing to install all the way, but it still freezes
> after about 5 minutes. I can't find any log messages close to the time
> of the freeze. I've tried a few kernel options (acpi=off, nolapic,
> noapic), I've stabbed randomly at BIOS options, but nothing seems to
> make any difference. Can anyone think of a reason why a system would
> freeze after 5 minutes of doing nothing in particular? It even does it
> in single-user mode, so I don't think it's X-related.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> - Mikee
>
>
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> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:27:08PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones said:
>
>> I'm trying to install linux on an older machine (Celeron 700 vintage).
>> I've tried several distros: ubuntu, debian, Mandrake. All of them have
>> the same result: they hang after ACPI reports its wake devices and EDD
>> reports devices. The last line before a hang reads thus:
>>
>> ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S5)
>> BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 6 devices found
>>
>> After that, nothing.
>>
>> Board is a SuperMicro 810 with Amibios 1997 1005001460 R 1.2C
>>
>> I don't know what kernel version it's trying to install, since the
>> messages go by so fast, but surely its the 2.6 series. By the way, an
>> older Mandrake, 10.1 community, did boot on this machine at one time.
>>
>> Any ideas? I'm not even sure what to google.
>>
>
> The bit that happens right after those two lines is usually the IDE
> layer probing, so it may be that that's what's failing. BIOS EDD was an
> attempt to have a uniform way for the BIOS to tell the OS what disk to
> boot from, among other things, but it doesn't always work out, or at
> least that was my impression. Can you try shutting off EDD in the BIOS?
> Or maybe on the kernel command line?
>
> Good luck,
>
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