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Re: [PLUG] BIOS EDD -- new install hangs
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When I had this problem before (this was my subject line) it seemed in
the end to be the acpi, not the bios edd. The edd message was just the
last one I saw. The problem seemed to be with any kernel 2.6. The
Mandrake distro I used (10.1) used a 2.4 kernel, and that worked fine. I
never did resolve this issue, other than to use the 2.4 kernel. The
kernel switch noacpi and nolacpi never worked for me either.
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 23:35 -0500, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > 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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