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Gutsy livecd doesn't boot on laptops with Intel's Santa Rosa platform

Bug #119255 reported by rob terhaar
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linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Nominated for Gutsy by Nikola Borisof

Bug Description

Macbooks Pro's and Inspiron 1420N's, when booting gutsy tribe 1-3 livecds, are dumped out to busybox after seeing a repeated string of:

kjournald starting. commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode

Original reporter: I think the problem might be related to the OS not being able to find the cdrom drive? I'm able to see and mount /dev/sda while in busy box, but device nodes aren't being created for /dev/hd* or /dev/sdb

See original description
Tags: macbookpro
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rob terhaar (robbyt) wrote :

gutsy alternate install livecd is working correctly.

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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Could be a badly burned cd-rom?

chuck

Changed in linux-source-2.6.22:
status: New → Incomplete
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rob terhaar (robbyt) wrote :

I made sure to run a consistency check on the cd before reporting this bug. additionally, i tried burning a second cd.

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Brian Barnes (bcbarnes) wrote :

Using gutsy tribe 3, I also cannot boot a santa rosa macbook pro from the standard desktop i386 iso. default and safe graphics mode failed. alternate cd works.

I think this is some sort of video issue? I don't recall seeing the ext3-fs messages the reporter did. I saw some PCI spam that disappeared quickly before the machine dumps to busybox and initramfs (?) prompt.

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Brian Pitts (bpitts) wrote :

I experience this on a Dell 1420N with Santa Rosa. It occurs with both the Feisty and Gutsy Tribe 3 live cds.

Brian Pitts (bpitts)
description: updated
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Matthew Specker (matthew-specker) wrote :

I can confirm this on a Dell 1420n. Alt install cd locks up during package installation. Screen displays multi-colored lines and boxes and install freezes.

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Brian Pitts (bpitts) wrote :

Tribe 4 still doesn't boot.

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Andrew Stone (litith) wrote :

I can confirm what Matthew Specker says:

"Alt install cd locks up during package installation. Screen displays multi-colored lines and boxes and install freezes." (HP DV6426)

Also, I experienced this same problem using the newest Debian Netinst CD. I am assuming the problems are related...

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Guillaume Radde (guillaumeradde) wrote :

Confirmed with Tribe 4 on Inspiron 1420N.

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Nikola Borisof (nikola-borisof) wrote :

Confirmed with 7.04 on Dell Inspiron 6400 with Core 2 Duo 5XXX, ATI X1400. The 64Bit CD works. i386 fails without any message.

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote :

Gutsy tribe-5 Live CD boots and works with Intel video. Alas, it breaks sound, but that is another bug.

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Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik) wrote :

"Gutsy tribe-5 Live CD boots and works with Intel video."
Closing.

"Alas, it breaks sound, but that is another bug."
Is there a bug opened for that?

Changed in linux-source-2.6.22:
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Tiago Silva (tiagosilva) wrote :

"Is there a bug opened for that?"
Bug #116326? I assume that Intel's HD Audio is the one used in Santa Rosa.

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