Has anyone got a desktop Linux running on an Acer D270? I can run a PXE-booted non-graphics system fine, and remote-install a desktop system fine, but on reboot the screen goes blank. It may be a problem with the graphics driver, but booting the same distro from a live CD works fine too.
Tring to make this dual-boot I put the /boot partition well beyond the 8GB limit (at aroung 50GB), and used Ted's recommended[1] 224 heads 56 sectors for the geometry to get partition 128k-aligned. The disk has 4k physical block size. However the geometry shouldn't matter for any disk >8GB because the primary partition table can't store it anyway[2]. Grub 1 is installed in MBR. The grub menu works fine, and the system does start to boot (initrd) but blackscreens soon after. Can anyone see any problem with this setup? It's kernel 3.1.0, and lspci says N10/ICH 7 Family chipset though I'm pretty sure the actual chipset version (or the D270) was released after the distro. I'd appreciate any hints, and a (private email) copy of your output of uname -a, lsmod, and the approximate start of your partition containing /boot. Thanks, Volker [1] http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase-block-size/ (use archive.org) [2] http://www.cs.tcu.edu/people/professors/rinewalt/30103/MBR_GRUB.pdf -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
