Guest Nolan Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Everything worked great during the live install, including dual boot. When I try booting into Mandriva it hangs after the Alsa is loaded, and nothing happens, it just sits there. Please tell me there is a solution! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Welcome aboard. :) Try to start the system at the boot-screen (lilo or grub bootloader) by adding the following parameters: linux noapic nolapic If that does not work, try to boot in failsafe mode. If that works, it is only a minor configuration-thing that needs to be adjusted. If it still hangs , then we will need to take a deeper look at your hardware/software combo. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nolan Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 Sorry, but I'm somewhat of a newb. How would I add those parameters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 27, 2007 Report Share Posted February 27, 2007 At the lilo screen, hit esc and type "linux noapic nolapic" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nolan Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Ok, I used that command and the same thing happened. I am able to boot into failsafe mode. So where should I go from here?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Would you tell me some information about your hardware? Brand of computer or motherboard? Video card or sound card? If you just know the brand, please give the specific model number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nolan Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Would you tell me some information about your hardware? Brand of computer or motherboard? Video card or sound card? If you just know the brand, please give the specific model number. It's a Toshiba L35-S2151 Celeron M 1.4ghz 512mb ram DVD-R drive I'm not sure what the wifi and sound card information is. I know the video card is an ATI Xpress 200m which is detected perfectly. I also have no problem with the wireless as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 Toshiba's usually have an option in the BIOS about using Plug and Play OS, or letting the BIOS control the devices. Maybe check this, and set it so that it's not controlled by the OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted February 28, 2007 Report Share Posted February 28, 2007 It's a Toshiba L35-S2151 As a (not very positive) reference, here is a Toshiba Satellite L30-134 that is stalling at the same place during the boot: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=39596 I would check the BIOS options, as Ian has suggested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sanu Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 (edited) Hello all. I also bought a toshiba A100-067 http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi...shibaShop=false and have the same problem. Ubuntu loads ok though. Has anyone found the solution? BIOS is of no help! Tried it. Even the noalpi nolapli command is useless. Still halts at after the ALSA driver is loaded. Strange thing is that failsafe loads linux perfectly. PLS HELP!!!!! Edited March 2, 2007 by sanu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Well, I would try to boot the system in failsafe mode. If that works, look at the /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg files which will tell us exactly where and why it stalls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 2, 2007 Report Share Posted March 2, 2007 Failsafe will work, because it's not loading the alsa stuff most likely or whatever is before or after that's causing the problem. Have you tried pressing the "I" for interactive mode, then you can decide whether to start alsa or not, and find out where the problem lies. You need to press ESC first, when booting, so that you can see when it appears with the prompt, and go from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest polaru Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 (edited) Hi. I also had the same problem on my A100-036 (install on, boot hangs after alsa or hal). I entered the interactive mode and did NOT start the service right after hal (or alsa, depending on where it hangs) and the system booted ok. How to start interactive mode: after lilo finished counting (or you pressed enter to chose a boot) start pressing ESC. As soon as you see scroll press the i key (and keep it pressed) till you see that you get optins like Yes No Continue (this will happen when it tries to start the first service). How i managed to start my system without the interactive mode: i reached the conclusion that the problem was sound related, so i removed it from start (chkcoonfig --del sound) but that was not enought since the problem is driver not the service itself, so i removed from /etc/modprobe.conf all the lines that included "snd" and now my system is just fine. I didn't find the right settings to use in order to get the sound working but the problem comes from snd_hda_sometinig. Maybe some more experienced users will help :) Thanks PS: i didn't find anything regarding PnP in BIOS Edited March 11, 2007 by polaru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dovix Posted April 2, 2007 Report Share Posted April 2, 2007 This worked for me: http://forum.club.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?p=317826 Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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