On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:21 -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > 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). Does your system support EFI booting? Is it enabled currently in your BIOS, if so ... try disabling? Thanks, James
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