On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Matthew Kolar <mjko...@charter.net> wrote:
> Hey Gobofans! > > Hey Matthew! Sorry it took so long to reply, but I wanted to wait until I had time to actually fix things on the ISO again. > I thought I might tell you about my latest attempt at getting the new v15 > gobo beta working on my lappy. The good news is that the bootstrapping > process appears to work all the way to the installer initialization, > however the bad news is the installer itself is Broken. With a capital B. > When it initializes, I can see the language select screen, rendered in > ncurses. The windowpane used for the options itself is graphically > misrendered, with a char on the frame on the right side incremented 1 > character space too much. In addition, the installer does not accept any > input from any input device (Mouse, Keyboard, Joystick, Gamepad) > whatsoever. The upside is I can see the selection cursor blinking, so I > know that the installers event loop seems to be working, so I think its > just an input issue. > The ncurses rendering issues have to do with the introduction of the UTF-8 terminal. We will make a few changes to the installer so that it links to ncursesw (which supports wide character / UTF-8) and that should go away. > Also, during the boot process, the kernel throws some errors: > > [ 17.043310] irq 9:nobody cared ( try booting with irqpoll) > [ 17.598871] Disabling IRQ #9 > > udevadm settle timeout (120sec) > > So I booted with the "irqpoll" option added in: > > Kernel gets stuck in loop: > iwl4965 0000:0c:00.0: HARDWARE GONE?? inta ==0xffffffff > > It gave me this message for about 300 secs until I did a manual hard > reboot. > > So it looks like the kernel is choking on my laptop wireless card. > I am not sure exactly what to do here. What happens if you just ignore the irq#9 message? Do you still have a working Live CD session? > I would also like to note that I will not be able to proceed with > installation until the next release of the gobo beta with the "mdadm" > package included appears. I would also appreciate it if someone would > check to see if my wireless card is enabled in gobo's standard kernel > config. I presume Gobo uses a "huge" kernel with everything modularized? > > That is correct. We have thousands of modules shipped to try to meet as many hardware configurations as possible. The Mdadm package will be part of the next release. Cheers, Lucas
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