On 5/1/2018 11:53 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > I have a guy with an older system > Core2 duo CPU > 4GB ddr2 scramble > > Dell motherboard > The problem is when I boot with a known good bootable Linux usb > Ubuntu, Fedora the system fails to post. > 1. Dell logo comes up > 2. Press F12 (boot) or F2 (setup) the light flashes on the usb and the > system is otherwise frozen. > 3. Neither the setup nor boot menu come up > > However, when I use a bootable gparted USB it comes up fine. When I go to > the boot menu and select the usb, it boots. >
I once had a system that had a strange incompatibility with most kernels, but there was a command line option (maybe an iommu related one?) that let me boot all kernels. Figured it out by checking the motherboard/chipsets and found a known issue with kernels at the time. If I had to guess, I'd say gparted uses a kernel that isn't set up to probe anything beyond the necessities (keyboard, disks, mouse and display), where the end-user distros like Ubuntu and Fedora have a kernel that is set up to probe for everything that might be available, and you're hitting some chipset-specific issue. Thanks, Matt _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
