[Novalug] Boot problems after MB swap
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Thu Jul 24 10:32:55 EDT 2008
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 05:53:31AM -0700, Igor Birman wrote:
> I think you should try a failsafe boot:
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.7-default root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
> See if that gets you anywhere..
>
> Igor
>
I've added these two entries to menu.lst, one each for SuSE and Fedora:
title openSUSE 10.2 Igor failsafe
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-0.7-default root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18.8-0.7-default
title fedora 8 Igor failsafe
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.4-10.fc8 root=/dev/sda1 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.4-10.fc8.img
Neither succeeded. Fedora's messages seemed the same as my normal boot entry.
Certainly the end part was the same as I posted yesterday. Only recognizable
difference was font size due to the different vga= options.
OpenSuSE was different. There were two "fatal" messages about inserting modules
for "thermal" and "fan". Here is one:
Fatal: Error inserting thermal (/lib/modules/2.6.18.8-0.7-default/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): no such device
And later I got this:
Loading edd
Bios EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25: 0 devices found
Edd information not available
and shortly thereafter:
Waiting for device /dev/hda3 to appear ....... not found
exiting to /bin/sh
And it dropped me to a shell prompt.
Unfortunately I'm running a usb keyboard and it was not functional
at this point. I can boot with a ps2 keyboard if there are some
specific explorations to make.
jl
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