* Darshaka Pathirana <bts@bts.grml.org> [20090809 13:24]:
> On 08/07/2009 01:25 PM, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > failsafe is an alias for:
> > vga=normal boot=live noautoconfig atapicd noapic noacpi acpi=off nomodules
> > nofirewire noudev nousb nohotplug noapm nopcmcia nosmp maxcpu
> > s=0 noscsi noagp nodma ide=nodma noswap nofstab nosound nogpm nosyslog nodhcp
> > nocpu nodisc nomodem xmodule=vesa noraid nolvm noresume selinux=0 edd=off
> > Could you please try to find out which option is relevant for your system?
> > (Try binary search to speed up testing.)
> After sending my previous post I did a last quick test and guess
> what: first try, first hit! ;) -> "edd=off" did the trick (again).
> So similar to issue348 "edd=off" makes the machine boot but before
> closing this (again) I have to ask where this problem comes from.
> Again: Ubuntu and gparted had no difficulties with booting their
> Live-CDs so the question is if this is a (vanilla-)kernel problem
> (and there is a upstream-bts-entry somewhere) or if this is
> grml-specific.
> IMHO using a bootoption to get the system running should be
> considered broken and we should keep this open until it is
> //really// solved. Don't you think so too?
Sounds reasonable.
Thanks for investigating. I'll check out kernel part.
regards,
-mika- |