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Re: [suse-ia64] boot, kdm problems
- From: Stefano Lodi <adm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 18:27:51 +0100
- Message-id: <20020211182751.A17271@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:23:01PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> * Stefano Lodi <adm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [020209 17:53]:
> > The details of the problem:
> > - At this point the first real problem occurred.
> > The installation program rebooted again but the boot process freezed after
> > starting kdm. The monitor switched to powersave mode and Ctrl-Alt-Del
> > was disabled. (Jan-Christoph Westermann reported a similar problem
> > on January 31st in this list, I believe.)
>
> Initialization can take quite a while. During this period, screen is black.
> What graphics adaptor do you use?
I noticed that KDE takes a long time even when using startx, but
I waited half an hour. I also tried to connect the monitor to the second
output, but nothing was there either. So I powercycled the machine.
The IBM 6894-10X uses Matrox G450, according to the specs at IBM's
site. SuSE installed a G400. I will try to set to G450, although
with startx everything seems to work fine.
>
> > - Now the really unexpected part. We created a partition with
> > label "FAT16" and formatted it with
> > mkdosfs -v -F 16 /dev/sda3.
> > - We copied /boot/elilo.efi and /boot/vmlinuz to the DOS partition.
> > - Rebooted. EFI could not see the DOS partition. However, the physical
> > device is there, in the output of the map command.
> > (EFI recognized only fs0:, the boot partition made visible by
> > the installation cd.) We also checked later that the partition was
> > readable.
>
> Have you tried activating the partition or giving it the bootable flag?
I toggled the `bootable' flag, but EFI still refuses to see it.
How do I `activate' a partition? I found an activating button
in Yast2, but that's inside a Lilo configuration area. I this what you
made reference to?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Reinauer
>
> --
> Ok hex 4666 dup negate do i 4000 dup 2* negate do " *" 0 dup 2dup 1e 0 do
> 2swap * e >>a 2* 3 pick + -rot - j + dup dup * e >>a rot dup dup * e >>a
> rot swap 2dup + 10000 > if 3drop 3drop " " 0 dup 2dup leave then loop
> 2drop 2drop type 266 +loop cr 5de +loop
--
Stefano Lodi, PhD
Researcher
Dept. of Electronics, C.S. and Systems & Faculty of Statistical Sciences
University of Bologna, ITALY
> * Stefano Lodi <adm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [020209 17:53]:
> > The details of the problem:
> > - At this point the first real problem occurred.
> > The installation program rebooted again but the boot process freezed after
> > starting kdm. The monitor switched to powersave mode and Ctrl-Alt-Del
> > was disabled. (Jan-Christoph Westermann reported a similar problem
> > on January 31st in this list, I believe.)
>
> Initialization can take quite a while. During this period, screen is black.
> What graphics adaptor do you use?
I noticed that KDE takes a long time even when using startx, but
I waited half an hour. I also tried to connect the monitor to the second
output, but nothing was there either. So I powercycled the machine.
The IBM 6894-10X uses Matrox G450, according to the specs at IBM's
site. SuSE installed a G400. I will try to set to G450, although
with startx everything seems to work fine.
>
> > - Now the really unexpected part. We created a partition with
> > label "FAT16" and formatted it with
> > mkdosfs -v -F 16 /dev/sda3.
> > - We copied /boot/elilo.efi and /boot/vmlinuz to the DOS partition.
> > - Rebooted. EFI could not see the DOS partition. However, the physical
> > device is there, in the output of the map command.
> > (EFI recognized only fs0:, the boot partition made visible by
> > the installation cd.) We also checked later that the partition was
> > readable.
>
> Have you tried activating the partition or giving it the bootable flag?
I toggled the `bootable' flag, but EFI still refuses to see it.
How do I `activate' a partition? I found an activating button
in Yast2, but that's inside a Lilo configuration area. I this what you
made reference to?
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Reinauer
>
> --
> Ok hex 4666 dup negate do i 4000 dup 2* negate do " *" 0 dup 2dup 1e 0 do
> 2swap * e >>a 2* 3 pick + -rot - j + dup dup * e >>a rot dup dup * e >>a
> rot swap 2dup + 10000 > if 3drop 3drop " " 0 dup 2dup leave then loop
> 2drop 2drop type 266 +loop cr 5de +loop
--
Stefano Lodi, PhD
Researcher
Dept. of Electronics, C.S. and Systems & Faculty of Statistical Sciences
University of Bologna, ITALY
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