[issue348] boot fails on grml 1.0-5 and 1.1-rc1 on a toshiba portege m100

[Darshaka Pathirana]

Darshaka Pathirana <dpat at syn-net.org> added the comment:

On 05/19/2009 06:18 PM, Michael Prokop wrote:
> 
> Do you have something like "Device config" in your BIOS settings?
> Is it set to "Setup by OS" or to "All Devices"? If so could you please try
> switching that? (Please do a cold boot, not a normal reboot then.)

Jup. There is a "Device config" BIOS setting and it was set to "Setup
by OS". I switched that did a cold bool and tried your given boot
option. No luck.

> Does booting using 'failsafe' or 'grml pnpacpi=off' or 'grml
> pnpbios=off' change anything?

* failsafe - failed
* grml pnacpi=off - nope
* grml pnpbios=off - nada

BUT: guess what! By using the 'failsafe' bootoption I saw the message
"Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)" for the first time. So I tried
'grml edd=off' and voila, booted promptly!

I searched the net a bit to get a cluewhat's this EDD is all about and
why it delays the boot process on my notebook (escpecially because
the CONFIG_EDD_OFF=m seems to be set in the grml kernel since ages and
I did not have problem before grml 1.0-5 - but I need to double check
that again) but found only uncomplete/unclear information (so far).

Maybe you have clue...

Greetings,
 - Darsha

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assignedto: mika
files: grml-boot-problem.jpg, info.tar.bz2, info_grml-090313_20090515_194702.tar.bz2
messages: 1027, 1682, 1710, 1811, 2121, 2203, 2205, 2208, 2209, 2210, 2211, 2223, 2224, 2251, 954, 957, 963, 965, 976
nosy: jkirk, mika
priority: bug
status: need-eg
title: boot fails on grml 1.0-5 and 1.1-rc1 on a toshiba portege m100
topic: core, kernel

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