mandriva 2009.1 live cd boots endlessly

[Guest kernelpanic!]

hello mandrivausers,

 

booting from mandriva 2009.1 live cd ...

 

everything is working just fine until the desktop-environment is almost fully loaded,

kde controlpanel and icons are there, all looking great.

the cd-drive however doesn`t stop booting, it continues for ever as if caught in an

endless loop. the processor seams to be maxed out, no response to whatever I try.

(looking at it for about half an hour I had to reset my pc).

 

md5-checksum of the iso is ok, using my other (dvd-)drive showed the same result.

cheatcodes (acpi=off, noapic, nolapic) didn`t help.

suspecting the new speedboot-feature I also tried "speedboot=no" as suggested for

grub codes on an installed system, again no result.

 

my system: pentium 2 ghz, 512 MB ram, ATI X1300.

when booting the cd in my notebook, everything works just fine.

 

now I'm out of ideas ... would be thankful for any suggestion/help to solve that problem!

[theYinYeti]

Were I you, at the Grub boot screen, I'd try and append “ 3†to the kernel line, so you can boot in text mode. If all is fine then the problem is either with X11 or with KDE.

 

Yves.

[Guest kernelpanic!]

ok, that`s what I did. cd bootet up to commandline, I logged in as guest and started X from there. the remaining boot process showed no change to the normal cd-boot, just endless booting ...

 

so I guess, mandriva is just not working on my machine. too bad, because this distribution is a real nice one, I think.

 

anyway, Yves, thankyou for your quick answer and help!

[dexter11]

I have a similar (or the same?) bug in my desktop computer. KDE 4 starts but the liitle applets next to the clock (kmix, net_applet etc) don't. It usually takes 10-15 minutes until the KDE desktop starts. And after it started it's still very slow.

Here's the bug report I made: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=49863

As you can see I tried the Gnome and the KDE four live cd to close out possibilities. I suggest you to do the same if you have the time and bandwidth.

 

 

 

 

edited to make it more understandable

Edited May 8, 2009 by dexter11

[theYinYeti]

anyway, Yves, thankyou for your quick answer and help!

You're welcome :)

 

If you went as far as the text-mode login prompt, then the distribution does work. But you have a problem with the graphical aspect of it. Things you could try (still at runlevel 3):

 

— First, configure your Xorg to use VESA: in text mode, as root, start drakx11, and for the graphics card, choose “Xorg|Vesaâ€.

 

— Now, run “Xorg†(just that, no parameters): if your X11 config is OK, then you should be able to quickly move your mouse pointer on the screen. Hit CtrlAltBackspace, or CtrlAltF1 and CtrlC, and the experiment will stop.

 

— If the previous step was OK, two things can be attempted: either you try and revert Xorg to the correct video driver, and run the experiment again, or (still with VESA) you urpmi icewm-light, and you try and run that:

# Xorg &
# export DISPLAY=:0
# icewm-light &

This should enable you to have a working minimal X11 session on CtrlAltF7. You can stop it by killall Xorg.

 

— If all goes well, you could try and run IceWM using the correct video driver, and if all still is OK, then try and use a simple “startx /usr/bin/icewm-light†instead of the tedious X & export DISPLAY & icewm-light as above.

 

Tell us the results you have.

 

Yves.

[Guest kernelpanic!]

oh my god ...

I'm just a newbie to linux and you want me to fiddle around with commandlines, xorg and window-managers ;)

but I`ll do my very best on the weekend and let you know what I found out B)