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[Discuss] Post issue with bootable linux
- Subject: [Discuss] Post issue with bootable linux
- From: me at mattgillen.net (Matthew Gillen)
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 22:26:53 -0400
- In-reply-to: <CAEvgogEAQN9AZn2sJxVOZZqttOA-sV-DYDor6EaiSK9xFnuaLQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/1/2018 11:53 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I have a guy with an older system > Core2 duo CPU > 4GB ddr2 scramble > > Dell motherboard > The problem is when I boot with a known good bootable Linux usb > Ubuntu, Fedora the system fails to post. > 1. Dell logo comes up > 2. Press F12 (boot) or F2 (setup) the light flashes on the usb and the > system is otherwise frozen. > 3. Neither the setup nor boot menu come up > > However, when I use a bootable gparted USB it comes up fine. When I go to > the boot menu and select the usb, it boots. > I once had a system that had a strange incompatibility with most kernels, but there was a command line option (maybe an iommu related one?) that let me boot all kernels. Figured it out by checking the motherboard/chipsets and found a known issue with kernels at the time. If I had to guess, I'd say gparted uses a kernel that isn't set up to probe anything beyond the necessities (keyboard, disks, mouse and display), where the end-user distros like Ubuntu and Fedora have a kernel that is set up to probe for everything that might be available, and you're hitting some chipset-specific issue. Thanks, Matt
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