Need bootup help - LiveCD 1.22.3 and 1.22.2

eug · Post by **eug** » Wed May 16, 2007 1:29 am

hi,

I'm having some bootup problems with both LiveCDs... this is where they hang:

1.22.2.1:

1.22.3:

The PC is a homebuilt one with an Asus P5B-E motherboard (Intel P965 chipset) and SATA drives.

Any hints? I've tried noscsi and noacpi as a stab in the dark, to no avail.

thanks

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:16 am

The screenshot of 1.22.3 shows the last message being setting the clock. This can take a long time to time out if the ntp servers are not available, or if there is no internet connection. It may not be hung, just waiting. Try it again and give it a little lonnnggger.

eug · Post by **eug** » Wed May 16, 2007 5:29 am

Oh... no wonder... I was confused as I couldn't see any error messages there. I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 though, gonna do a manual install and see how that goes. There were some loooong pauses too, i thought it hung at one or two points.

If this doesn't go well i'll try and just sit and wait on 1.22.3.

thanks

robi · Post by **robi** » Thu May 17, 2007 9:57 am

rdmelin wrote:The screenshot of 1.22.3 shows the last message being setting the clock. This can take a long time to time out if the ntp servers are not available, or if there is no internet connection. It may not be hung, just waiting. Try it again and give it a little lonnnggger.

I have the same issue, it takes about 5 to 8 minutes (!) to go over it. I read that there is a bug inthere, tried to fix it but no luck. (Disabling time-related things in Webmin, etc) Well I left it that way as I don't reboot my system every day, but I'd love to see a fix for it.

As far as I remember, it's not related to time sync-ing with external time servers, but to syncing the software clock to the hardware clock. So it's definitely a bug inthere... Plus the ntp daemon timeout if no ntp server found is I think 60 secs, not 5 minutes...

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:10 pm

OK robi, thanks for this report. Here is a link to a possible solution.

http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/M ... the_link_d

Since not all network drivers are affected can you please test this and see if it resolves the problem there.

Thanks

Ross

robi · Post by **robi** » Thu May 24, 2007 1:07 pm

Thanks!

Well I already had MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes in my config while having the problem.

Anyway, I added LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=5 and added to lilo the nopinit parameter. I'll see how it behaves at next reboot.

boycho · Post by **boycho** » Mon May 28, 2007 9:33 pm

options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
in modprobe before
options bttv
if you have UNKNOWN/GENERIC card

rdmelin · Post by **rdmelin** » Tue May 29, 2007 2:35 am

Nice

Works here!

And welcome to the forums. May all your posts follow this pattern.

robi · Post by **robi** » Fri Jun 15, 2007 12:35 pm

Finally a reboot, and noted that MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes and LINK_DETECTION_DELAY=5 did not solve the problem however options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 did.

I added this to the wiki, in the Pico2000 section.