On 05/13/2011 09:27 AM, James Laska wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 09:09 -0700, Per Bothner wrote: >> I get the grub flash screen centered on the display >> (looks like 800 pixels wide out of 1920 wide native resolution). >> I can enter grub commands etc fine. When I boot I get >> >> Trying to allocate 941 pages from VMLINUZ2 >> [Linux-EFI, setup=0x101e, size=0x3ac3101] >> [Initrd, addr=0x79ce2000, size=0x5e1a6e0] >> >> and then it hangs. > Check your kernel boot parameters, make sure you aren't redirecting > console output to another device (console=). Nope. Note this is booting from the DVD (Fedora-15-x86_64-DVD.iso burned to a DVD) or a USB stick - I certainly haven't changed the parameters. > The initrd.img in Fedora 15 is considerably larger than previous > releases. Allow the kernel some time to load the image. Walk away for > 5 minutes or so. Maybe we'll get lucky, and it just needed more time. Nope - it's taking longer than that. > Check your BIOS for any funky console redirection. Try booting > different milestones (Alpha, Beta) or releases (Fedora 14, 13 ...) to > find something that works. > If you can't find anything that works, I'd > be suspect of local hardware or configuration. If you find something > that does work ... we can work backwards to see when it started failing. > > I'm poking around to see if there are any other debugging options, > because if console redirection isn't the problem, I'm out of ideas :( As mentioned, i386 live Alpha boots. Also, beta x86_64 live works, though it takes a while (nouveau needs to time out). I will just try to install that, so I have something that runs. -- --Per Bothner per@xxxxxxxxxxx http://per.bothner.com/ -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
