Kubuntu 7.10 trouble with boot ; Notebook Samsung R60 Plus

[damjan]

Hi,

I have troubles with booting Kubuntu 7.10.
After Grub text menu boot simply stop and do not even start. All I have is welcoming screen with Kubuntu slide bar waiting to start.
If I press ctrl+alt+1 many times the booting procedure goes somehow through.

dmesg shows following errors:
22.203755] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 22.203757] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps,
post a report
[ 22.203762] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:07.0
[ 22.203815] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:07.0
[ 22.203969] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 22.203970] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 22.204012] pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserv
ed
[ 22.204015] pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserv


but then I think that main reason is somewhere in the hard drive:

[ 90.832000] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to polling mode...
[ 99.200000] hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode
...
[ 99.200000] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC262, trying auto-probe from BIOS.
..
[ 126.060000] si3054: cannot initialize. EXT MID = 0000
[ 140.628000] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x8
[ 140.628000] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0x9
[ 140.776000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 140.840000] Adding 2088440k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:
2088440k
[ 141.292000] EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
......

[ 169.792000] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.37.6 [May 25 2007] on minor 0
[ 169.804000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] total GART = 130023424
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] free GART = 114032640
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] max single GART = 114032640
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] total LFB = 134086656
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] free LFB = 119697408
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] max single LFB = 119697408
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] total Inv = 0
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] free Inv = 0
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] max single Inv = 0
[ 172.540000] [fglrx] total TIM = 0
[ 175.396000] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 177.560000] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 205.028000] hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.

It is notebook Samsung R60plus (preloaded with MS Vista) and I think that some driver for the hard drive is not compatibile with it.
I did installed Atheros hardware Access Layer and ATI driver for the non-free driver support.



br
Damjan

[Qqmike]

Re: Kubuntu 7.10 trouble with boot ; Notebook Samsung R60 Plus

You are way over my head (i.e., you know more than I do here about this!).
I would just note that one often gets that error when there's problems setting up the initrd (initial RAMdisk).
In your boot menu, /boot/grub/menu.lst, in the kernel line, the trouble starts after the "root=" part and/or in finding/installing the RAM disk to get things started in the boot process. What you say here is consistent with this. (I've seen SATA driver issues come into play here in some cases.)

Without using the Live CD, you can't access this (the Kubuntu boot entry) so here it is:
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=cbd79e1b-6095-49ca-9b42-4cfca49b899c ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic

(This knowledge won't help you solve the problem, though.)

[dibl]

Re: Kubuntu 7.10 trouble with boot ; Notebook Samsung R60 Plus

Did you try the Live CD -- does it boot and function? If the Live CD will run, connect to Internet, etc., then it seems the problem is within the hardware that Live CD does not use, like the hard drive and hard drive controller and maybe some parts of BIOS.

[ 175.396000] apm: BIOS not found.

This one would scare me.

[damjan]

Re: Kubuntu 7.10 trouble with boot ; Notebook Samsung R60 Plus

Hi,

Is the solution to install Kubuntu form the Alternate CD?
I have installed this from normal kubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso

What is a role of Alternate CD in term of benefit in such cases?

br
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[Qqmike]

Re: Kubuntu 7.10 trouble with boot ; Notebook Samsung R60 Plus

See if there's anything here that applies to your situation:
http://www.google.com/search?q=apm%3...ient=firefox-a

[Qqmike]

Re: Kubuntu 7.10 trouble with boot ; Notebook Samsung R60 Plus

I'm not sure whether the Alternate installer would help here. Of course, I haven't researched your problem, so I'm not sure about anything.

Herman summarizes the Alternate advantages as (direct quote):

With the 'Alternate' Install CD, you can,

* choose between GRUB and LILO boot loaders, or even install with no boot loader at all,
* specify exactly where you want the IPL for the boot loader installed,
* create pre-configured OEM systems,
* set up automated deployments,
* upgrade an older installation without network access,
* install ubuntu as a server, (without any 'GUI' (desktop)),
* set up Ubuntu with LVM or software RAID,
* perform an 'expert' install (for coping with machines with difficult hardware),
* the 'Alternate' CD's partitioner will work in a computer with 128 mb of memory and maybe less.
* plus a few more neat little tricks.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/


I use it sometimes for the first two reasons (bootloader install & where), but even then, you can do that with the Live CD installer ("Manual" plus Step 6--the Advanced button is where you put GRUB).