Re: Acer Aspire 1691WCLi no boot problem

[Jesus Delgado <jdelgado@gmail.com>]

Hi all:

  Iam have is the same problems with emachines M6807.

 Any Idea?

On 7/29/05, Brad Barnett <bahb@l8r.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I have a very odd problem with an Acer Aspire 1691WCLi.  This laptop will
> simply not boot with any Debian precompiled kernel, with the exception of
> Debian's 2.4.27-2 initrd kernel.  I have compiled my own kernels, using a
> vast array of options, 2.6.11, 2.6.12, 2.6.12.3, 2.6.13-rc4 and 2.4.27,
> they also all fail in exactly the same way.  I have tried with and without
> initrd, acpi, 386 or other processor options, as well as very lean,
> stripped down kernels.  I have tried with both lilo and grub, but both
> result in the same hang.
> 
> Lilo or grub boots the kernel, and I see the classic:
> 
> boot: vmlinuz
> Loading vmlinuz.................................................
> BIOS data check successful
> Uncompressiong Linux... Ok. booting the kernel.
> _
> 
> 
> That's it.  A screencap can be had here, although it does not tell much else:
> 
> http://be.back.l8r.net:8000/no_boot.jpg
> 
> Debian's 2.4.27-2 boots fine, and this is what really annoys me.  I took
> Debian's 2.4.27-2 initrd config from /boot, ran make oldconfig on a fresh
> 2.4.27 tree (some minor options were different due to Debian's
> backpatching).  This image _still_ would not boot.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?  If needed, I could compile a few more
> kernels, change GCC versions (if anyone thinks that would help) and so on.
>  However, my goal here is to get 2.6 working in order to support various
> bits of hardware on this laptop.
> 
> There are very few bios options to change. :/
> 
> Pentium M 725, 512M ram.
> 
> LSPCI shows:
> 
> 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML ExpressGraphics Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
> 0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
> 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
> 0000:06:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
> 0000:06:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
> 0000:06:01.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments PCIxx21Integrated FlashMedia Controller
> 0000:06:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
> 0000:06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet(rev 03)
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