* Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11734] New: Ramdonly linux don't boot, it hangs at the very first stage of booting with some error related with uvesafb
2008-10-10 20:50 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 11734] New: Ramdonly linux don't boot, it hangs at the very first stage of booting with some error related with uvesafb Andrew Morton
@ 2008-10-10 21:07 ` Diego Ocampo
2008-10-11 9:38 ` Michal Januszewski
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From: Diego Ocampo @ 2008-10-10 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Michal Januszewski, linux-fbdev-devel, bugme-daemon
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You mean the firmware of the graphic card? In any case windows vista boots
always without any problem... and also ubuntu hardy (kernel 2.6.24) boot
always without problems
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org>wrote:
>
> (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
> bugzilla web interface).
>
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:37:41 -0700 (PDT)
> bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
>
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11734
> >
> > Summary: Ramdonly linux don't boot, it hangs at the very first
> > stage of booting with some error related with uvesafb
> > Product: Drivers
> > Version: 2.5
> > KernelVersion: 2.6.27-6
> > Platform: All
> > OS/Version: Linux
> > Tree: Mainline
> > Status: NEW
> > Severity: normal
> > Priority: P1
> > Component: Video(Other)
> > AssignedTo: drivers_video-other@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
> > ReportedBy: diegoocampo8@gmail.com
> >
> >
> > Latest working kernel version: 2.6.24-xx
> > Earliest failing kernel version: ----
> > Distribution: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
> > Hardware Environment: Samsung R70 / A009
> > Software Environment: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Beta.
> > Problem Description: First of all: I am not a linux expert so please
> don't ask
> > me too much technical questions about the problem, but i will try to help
> as
> > much as i can...
> > I am not sure if it is related with Ubuntu or with the kernel but the
> problems
> > take place in the very first stage of booting (maybe with the loading of
> the
> > kernel??) and I get the following error messages:
> > "606627 uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d"
> > "606719 uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and
> executable"
> > "606814 uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)"
> > "606905 uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
> >
> > Then the loading goes on a little bit until reaching the message:
> > "Loading hardware drivers ....... " and the laptop freezers at this
> point.
> >
> > Like i said this is a ramdonly problem,if i restart the computer most
> probably
> > ubuntu starts, but i think it is very annoying anyway!.
> >
>
> hm. firmware loader problems, perhaps?
>
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* Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 11734] New: Ramdonly linux don't boot, it hangs at the very first stage of booting with some error related with uvesafb
2008-10-10 20:50 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 11734] New: Ramdonly linux don't boot, it hangs at the very first stage of booting with some error related with uvesafb Andrew Morton
2008-10-10 21:07 ` Diego Ocampo
@ 2008-10-11 9:38 ` Michal Januszewski
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michal Januszewski @ 2008-10-11 9:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: diegoocampo8, linux-fbdev-devel, bugme-daemon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 22:50, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> I am not sure if it is related with Ubuntu or with the kernel but the problems
>> take place in the very first stage of booting (maybe with the loading of the
>> kernel??) and I get the following error messages:
>> "606627 uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d"
>> "606719 uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable"
>> "606814 uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)"
>> "606905 uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22
>
>> Like i said this is a ramdonly problem,if i restart the computer most probably
>> ubuntu starts, but i think it is very annoying anyway!.
Do you have these uvesafb error messages in the kernel log (run `dmesg`
to check the kernel log) when your laptop boots successfully?
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