Boot failure on GA-MA770-3SP

[Peter D]

Hi,

I have just downloaded KNOPPIX_V6.0.1-ADRIANE_V1.1CD-2009-02-08-EN.iso and burnt it to a CD. It boots one of my computers (strangely without sound) but fails to boot the other at all.

The failure is with a
GigaByte GA-MA770-3SP motherboard,
AMD X2 3600+ cpu,
PCI ATI 9200 series video card,
1 GB of memory,
SATA DVD burner.

After the "boot:" prompt times out it displays,
"Loading Linux ..........",
followed by,
"initrd.gz ..............".
Then the screen goes black, and the keyboard fails to respond to anything, not even NumLock, CapsLock, or the <alt><sys_request> combinations.

I did get it to boot when I typed in a dozen no{everything-I-could-think-of} options at the boot: prompt.

Now what? Do you have a formal bug reporting system? What more information would you like?

[Peter D]

I saved the output from lspic and lspci -n from the attemp that booted...

[psd@localhost hd3]$
[psd@localhost hd3]$
[psd@localhost hd3]$ cat K_lspci.out
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RX780/RX790 Chipset Host Bridge
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RD790 PCI to PCI bridge (PCI express gpp port F)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:14.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:06.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
02:06.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Secondary) (rev 01)
02:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
[psd@localhost hd3]$
[psd@localhost hd3]$
[psd@localhost hd3]$
[psd@localhost hd3]$ cat K_lspc
K_lspcin.out K_lspci.out
[psd@localhost hd3]$ cat K_lspcin.out
00:00.0 0600: 1002:5957
00:0a.0 0604: 1002:597f
00:11.0 0106: 1002:4390
00:12.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:12.1 0c03: 1002:4398
00:12.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:13.0 0c03: 1002:4397
00:13.1 0c03: 1002:4398
00:13.2 0c03: 1002:4396
00:14.0 0c05: 1002:4385 (rev 3a)
00:14.1 0101: 1002:439c
00:14.2 0403: 1002:4383
00:14.3 0601: 1002:439d
00:14.4 0604: 1002:4384
00:14.5 0c03: 1002:4399
00:18.0 0600: 1022:1100
00:18.1 0600: 1022:1101
00:18.2 0600: 1022:1102
00:18.3 0600: 1022:1103
01:00.0 0200: 10ec:8168 (rev 02)
02:06.0 0300: 1002:5960 (rev 01)
02:06.1 0380: 1002:5940 (rev 01)
02:0e.0 0c00: 104c:8024
[psd@localhost hd3]$

[paradocs]

Greetings
First, a cd dvd burned DAO at a slow rate and
on the drive you will use it on can help.
But there may be SATA issues.
Search this forum for SATA DVD
See the advice at the end of this post.
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29498
Best Wishes
paradocs

[Peter D]

The burn is good.

"rawread /dev/cdrom | md5sum" agrees with the download value.

It still fails, in one computer but not the other.

[Peter D]

It boots if I type in "knoppix acpi=off".


knoppix@Microknoppix:/proc$ cat /proc/cmdline
ramdisk_size=100000 lang=en vt.default_utf8=0 apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet loglevel=0 nolapic_timer BOOT_IMAGE=linux acpi=off

It was not a bad burn.