AMD Athlon 64x2, 2,1 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, 250GB IDE disk, Asus M2A-VM HDMI mb, Sapphire Radeon 3650 512 MB video board, Iiyama ProLite E481S 19" LCD.
Disk partitions;
sda1 FAT32 10 GB boot
sda5 NTFS 80 GB Windows XP
sda6 swap 1 GB
sda7 ext3 39 GB Mandriva 2010 Free
Using Puppy 4.31 with Firefox.
Booting to Windows XP, Mandriva and LivePuppy on CD works just fine. I've installed Puppy frugal install using Puppy Universal Installer on to sda7 (ext3) using Puppy431 directory. I updated Grub menu.lst to read:
as installer told me to do.rootnoverify (hd0,6)
kernel /puppy431/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy431 nosmp
initrd /puppy431/initrd.gz
When I try to boot to fugal Puppy, it'll start fine, switching on to root, updating network drivers and then tells me "Loadin kernel modules..."
and goes to outer space.
Adding LOGLEVEL=7 to the Grub kernel line tells more. It fails to get into terms with graphics board. This is same place from successful LivePuppy bootkernel.log:
what appears to console during failing frugal boot is that PCI INT A end up being IRQ 3 and PCI INT B using IRQ 0 and then it says "unable to grab IRQ 0, disabling device. Probe of 0000:01:00.1 failed with error=10"Linux agpgart interface v0.103
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0xb00, revision 0
HDA Intel 0000:00:14.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: PCI INT B -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
HDA Intel 0000:01:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
and then comes few more messages concerning network card and eth0, and that's it. System hangs until I use reset button.
Is there any way to grab the console messages? As far as I was able to see, everything up to that point seemed to go normally, but there are lots of messages that scroll by awfully fast. Could be that it gets off the track at some other place.
Motherboard has another graphics controller (Radeon X1250) of its own (AMD 690G/SB600 chipset) and I don't know any way to actually disable it. I have set this Radeon 3650 board as the default system to use and of course the monitor is connected to that. Could this extra graphics controller be using problems? It works on LivePuppy, though.
I checked Mandriva dmesg as well, and it produces pretty much the same log as Live Puppy.
I have used this same CD to install to couple other systems with no problems (well, not this kind of problems, anyway), so CD appears to be okay.
I have now cleared up and reinstalled Puppy frugal twice. Results are the same. And after maybe 5-6 reboots it always hangs up in same place with same messages.
Sigh.
Any help would be appreciated.