kubuntu live will not boot on my athlon 2700+ (fwd)

[Bonnie Dalzell]

It was suggested that I should forward this to kubuntu-dev.

I did take a digital photo of the (failure to) boot screen and I can
e-mail that to the appropriate people.

I have successfully installed ubuntu on the athlon that will not boot
kubuntu live.

On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:

BMH ><quote who="Bonnie Dalzell" date="Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 06:07:08PM -0400">
BMH >> As the subject header says, kubuntu live will not complete a boot on
BMH >> my athlon 2700+ although ubuntu live does successfully boot.
BMH >> 
BMH >> the hang up occurs after the screen saying to press return to boot
BMH >> and after the line on the screen saying "checking battery state".
BMH >> 
BMH >> then it reports:
BMH >> 
BMH >> ID "5" respawning too fast; disable for 5 minutes
BMH >> 
BMH >> It then goes through IDs 4,2,6,1,3 with the same results. Then comes the line
BMH >> "no more processes left in this runlevel"
BMH >> 
BMH >> then nothing.
BMH >> 
BMH >> If I wait for the 5 minutes it goes back to the respawing complaint
BMH >> until I gert tired of seeing that line scroll by and hit
BMH >> "control-alt-delete" to reboot.
BMH >> 
BMH >> it does come back to awareness enough to tell me to take the cd out
BMH >> of the drive before rebooting.
BMH >> 
BMH >> i do have a digital photo I can send you showing all of what is on
BMH >> the monitor when the hang up occurs.
BMH >> 
BMH >> This does not happen with the ubuntu live! disk only the kubuntu live disk.
BMH >> 
BMH >> both versions claim to be 5.04 and were downloaded on Aug 5, 2005 and Aug 6, 2005.
BMH >
BMH >I hope you understand that I can not handle every support request
BMH >myself. Please look at our support page here and see if your question
BMH >is in the documentation. If it is not, feel free to ask on the
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BMH >
BMH >I'm sorry that I can't be of more help for you directly.

I am not asking you to help me directly. However I thought you might want
to know about this boot failure of Kubuntu Live since Ubuntu Live ran just
fine on the same Athlon. If you want the photo of the failure screen I
will e-mail it to you. I think there is a bug in your installation code in
relation to Athlon CPUs. The boot code seemed to identify by CPU as an
Athlon 1500+ while in fact it is an Athlon 2700+.

This is NOT a 64 bit Athlon, incidently.



BMH >
BMH >Regards,
BMH >Mako
BMH >
BMH >-- 
BMH >Benjamin Mako Hill
BMH >mako at ubuntu.com | mako at canonical.com
BMH >

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