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Re: [LUG] Viglen MPC problem

 

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:22:08 +0100, Tom Potts wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2008 16:38, Simon Waters wrote:
>> Tom Potts wrote:
>> > After I got my Viglen I played with it a bit and installed a few
> things
>> > and updated but not upgraded.
>> > Now it wont boot  - a Kernel panic!
>> > Its got USB and no 'real' keyboard  and wont respond to F1 or ESC to
>> > choose a different kernel (if thats the problem)
>> > Any ideas on where to go (other than back to Viglen of course..)
>>
>> What boot loader are you using?
>>
>> GRUB with hiddenmenu is "esc".
>> Lilo uses "tab".
> The box has USB2 and USB1.1 ports - I had the keyboard/mouse in the 2.0
> ports
> at the front of the box  and could get no response on those. Plugged then
> in
> the 1.1 at the back et voila they worked so I could add a few params to
> the
> kernel to get it going - specifically "pci=noacpi pnpbios=off" and all is
> well ish -surely kernel params should be carried over to kernel upgrades?
> Tom te tom te tom

Depends where you put them.  It would seem that most distros automatically
generate GRUB/LiLo entries - if the kernel's parameters were added to your
bootloader's config file manually and were not added to the "template",
these modifications wouldn't necessarily follow through to upgrades.

Grant.


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