On 03/05/10 21:13, Tony Pursell wrote: > On 3 May 2010 at 20:25, Matthew Daubney wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: >> >>> On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all >>>>> >>>>> I have posted the following bug >>>>> >>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776 >>>>> >>>>> but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help >>>>> me? >>>>> >>>>> It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my >>>>> USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, >>>>> if >>>>> needed. >>>>> >>>>> Tony >>>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM >>>> do you have? >>>> >>>> Here's the error in the drivers code >>>> >>>> if (rdev->family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev->family == CHIP_RS480) { >>>> /* FIXME: RS400& RS480 seems to have issue with GART size >>>> * if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */ >>>> rdev->mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024; >>>> DRM_ERROR("Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug >>>> ?)\n"); >>>> } >>>> >>>> Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit >>>> further. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> -Matt Daubney >>>> >>>> >>> Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some >>> of the system RAM. The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop >>> with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram. >>> >>> John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if >>> you want but shutting XP& rebooting takes an age) >>> >>> Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails. >>> >>> Tony >>> >>> >> The other question is, what partitions do you keep on the software raid? >> ureadahead doesn't like /var having it's own partition apparently. >> >> > I have *no* software raid that I know of! Yes /var does have its own > partition. > > I can boot off the USB stick with Lucid 10.04 LTS on it, but I did not > install from it. This was a distribution upgrade using Update Manager. > > The kernels shown by GRUB are > > 2.6.32.21 > 2.6.31.21 > 2.6.27.11 > > I can't boot from the first two. The last one boots to a log in prompt, > then freezes, but gives me a console session on tty1. It also boots in > recovery mode. > > Tony > > > >
When that happened to me on my netbook, I tried sudo apt-get update, and it got me to a log in screen. I then had to do a rescue, which actually worked. Dont know if that helps. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
