From: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
pjones@redhat.com, deller@gmx.de, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot boot an i386-UEFI thinkpad lenovo tablet-2
Date: Fri, 12 May 2023 13:47:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZF4nYQT31qDH_9qb@Red> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <055b41e9-b345-03fe-755c-cdcb08e4098b@intel.com>
Le Tue, May 09, 2023 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Dave Hansen a écrit :
> On 5/9/23 13:37, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> > Le Tue, May 09, 2023 at 07:01:02AM -0700, Dave Hansen a écrit :
> >> On 5/8/23 23:29, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> >>> The tablet has only one port, so I use a hub for keyboard and USB key.
> >>> Immediatly after booting Linux, all hub port light goes to off.
> >> If it's dying in the installer, can you boot it to a shell or rescue
> >> media? Are you getting any kernel messages on the screen before the
> >> installer?
> >>
> > Sorry my sentence was not precise ("after booting linux"),
> >
> > It die after pressing enter on grub menu.
> > No kernel message, nothing new on screen.
> > Only visible change are USB light off.
> >
> > I have really no clue.
>
> A lot of distros set the 'quiet' option to _keep_ the kernel from
> spewing messages at boot. Ubuntu sets "quiet splash", for instance.
>
> Going into the grub menu and killing the 'quiet' and replacing it with
> 'debug' is a good place to start. earlyprintk=vga can also help if
> things are still blank at that point. I thought we used to have an
> earlyprintk=efi, but it seems to have vanished at some point.
>
> But, you've got a bit of oddball hardware. It's from the _far_ extreme
> end of 32-bit-only hardware. The fact that it had Windows on it isn't a
> great sign. There could be a BIOS bug that trips Linux up but Windows
> is perfectly happy with. There was definitely a sad period of time
> where folks were not interested in fixing issues like that.
Thanks for your hints.
I have already disabled quiet and unfortunatly, none of earlyprintk= changed anything.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-12 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-09 6:29 Cannot boot an i386-UEFI thinkpad lenovo tablet-2 Corentin Labbe
2023-05-09 6:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-05-09 14:01 ` Dave Hansen
2023-05-09 20:37 ` Corentin Labbe
2023-05-09 20:48 ` Dave Hansen
2023-05-12 11:47 ` Corentin Labbe [this message]
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