sjaglin Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 (edited) Hi There, I am trying to optimise my install of Mandriva 2008 on the asus P701 mini laptop. I installed as described there : https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...139&hl=asus My mandriva is on a usb external driver, on the first partition and so far has the following install: [root@localhost stephane]# uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 03:58:17 CEST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz GNU/Linux [root@localhost stephane]# uname -r 2.6.22.9-desktop586-1mdv All is good, although not that fast (slow usb drive). My problem is to try to get a more recent kernel. So far the updates have installed for me some better version 2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv being the most recent. In order to boot I have to chose the linux-nonfb noapic nolapic otherwise I get a kernel panic at the end of the initrd. If I do any other kernel than the 22.9 I get a kernel panic. My Lilo :[root@localhost stephane]# cat /etc/lilo.conf # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="linux" boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map install=menu keytable=/boot/uk-latin1.klt menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw compact prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz-desktop label="linux" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-desktop.img append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/sda5" image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe" image=/boot/vmlinuz label="desktop586_2.6.22.9-1" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz-desktop586 label="desktop586_2.6.22.12-1" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-desktop586.img append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.12-desktop586-1mdv label="alt_desktop586_2.6.22.12-1" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv label="desktop_2.6.22.12-1" root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv.img append="resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 [root@localhost stephane]# Sorry, I feel more at home with lilo... (Boooh) My questions: Is there any other options than noapic/nolapic which could work? Can I write the noapic nolapic bit somewhere in order to avoid retyping it? Any idea why the old kernel is the only one to work? Thanks for your help Stef Edited February 12, 2008 by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Can I write the noapic nolapic bit somewhere in order to avoid retyping it? You can append it to each append="..." line (inside the double-quotes of course). Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Thanks have done it, it works, ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted February 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2008 (edited) Hi, I am back with my booting problems on the Eee laptop from Asus. I am testing the installation of 2008.1 on an external usb disk for that laptop. The aim is to keep Mandriva on external disk and Xandros on the internal ssd (very fast boot - 30 secs). In order to install 2008.1 on the usb external hard drive I had to cheat : I unplugged all the hard drive from my Desktop and booted on the cdrom (2008.1 live) therefore fooling the installer in thinking the external drive was the only drive on board (in order for the drive to get the sda label). Thanks to this method, I can install and boot the Eee on 2008.1 on external drive with a booting time of approx. 80 seconds. Acceptable for me as once booted the lan/wifi/webcam/sound/3d work perfectly and it's really a great distro on this machine. Nevertheless in order to progress I need the more recent kernel , 2.6.24-desktop586-0.rc8.2mdv is the one I run successfully. Any other kernel and the Eee won't boot despite trying noapic, nolapic, irqpoll. MY QUESTIONS: 1- How can I get the source to compile 2.6.24-desktop586-0.rc8.2mdv? 2-Any ideas why Mandriva will not boot except if I use the kernel used during prime install? Thanks for your help, Stef (fighting for Mandriva being a great distro for the Eee PC!! see : http://wiki.eeeuser.com/mandiva_2008_on_eee_pc ) Edited February 12, 2008 by sjaglin@yahoo.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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