Boot questions

[Larry Hartman]

On Saturday 09 June 2007 04:56:24 pm Larry Hartman wrote:
> On Saturday 09 June 2007 01:15:11 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Larry Hartman wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 June 2007 12:17:26 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
> > >> Larry Hartman wrote:
> > >> > So I added noapic and was unable to boot except in
> > >> > recovery mode.  Here is the applicable boot.list portion:
> > >
> > > ok....I think I understand the difference.  I added it to the
> > > defoptions, and the default boot didn't boot, the alternate did....
> >
> > Ah, sorry.  My fault.  I obviously read "able" instead of "unable"...
> >
> > > Now my real point is that the MP-BIOS error is somehow related to APIC,
> > > but the suggested solution to add noapic to the boot process caused the
> > > system to
> > > not boot.  I think the issue is fairly rare, was hoping someone could
> > > give me definite pointers.
> >
> > So does the 8254 error actually prevent booting?  If not, I wouldn't
> > worry.
>
> Well I am able to boot and use the system, so my worry level is fairly
> low.... Previous kernel versions noapic was added and all worked fine. 
> Wonder what the difference is?

Reply to myself......this is a known bug appears to be hardware/bios related, 
different solutions work for different equipment.

Ubuntu Launchpad #66900


>
> > >> > 3.  Last, the final checkbox line in the boot has a "fail" warning. 
> > >> > I believe it has to do with apache2 webserver.....which does
> > >> > load...I see it in the
> > >> > memory....but the line goes by so quickly I can not read it all. 
> > >> > What file on the system contains all of these checkbox lines so that
> > >> > I can review them and troubleshoot?
> > >>
> > >> Just use ctrl-alt-f8, and it puts you back to the terminal where the
> > >> boot process was logging.  Interestingly, when doing this to find out
> > >> which terminal it was on, I discovered one of _my_ last scripts
> > >> (S99nxserver) has an error, and _it_ is working fine, too!
> > >
> > > I didn't think of this...now that you suggested it and I tried it,
> > > discovered my video card messes up the monitor on the other screens
> > > with vertical
> > > colored lines.....uggh, ATI.  But that is another concern.  Would there
> > > be a way I could check this from within KDE?
> >
> > I wouldn't blame ATI for this - it sometimes happens to me with Intel 915
> > graphics.
> >
> > You might try any of the other terminals first.  I find that when that
> > happens, it only happens to the first terminal I try.  So try
> > <ctrl-alt-f1>,  if you get the vertical lines, try the next one.  When
> > you see a good terminal, then try <ctrl-alt-f8>.  I just know that the
> > log messages must be available somewhere, but I can't find them either...
>
> Your right ATI is not the problem......does the same thing even when the
> fglrx driver is not loaded.   None of my terminals work after x starts.
> Incidentally I get a terminal login screen flash for just a second prior to
> x starting, never did that before....at least slow enough to notice.
>
> > --
> > derek