Boot failure with video corruption
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| casper (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I can't find a boot option that will cause Feisty Fawn beta to boot.
Symptoms (regardless of booting normal, graphical safe mode, video resolution set to minimum)
As soon as I hit enter, the small window with progress bar comes up. While initially the progress bar progresses with blue squares, at the same time there is video corruption (extra pixels changing, immediately under and around the progress bar)
After the progress bar fills, there is additional delay, with additional corruption. Note that the initial boot screen / menu is still visible in the background.
Then the screen clears. There is a short change, and the sound my monitor makes when it changes video modes. There may be a very brief flash of text, followed by nothing. After a short pause, the caps lock and scroll lock lights on the keyboard begin flashing in unison.
This could be a problem in the boot loader (I have no idea what you use for a boot loader) or _very_ early in the kernel boot process.
Potentially pertinent details:
MB: Asus SK8V
CPU: Opteron 148
Memory: 1GB
Video: ATI x800, 256M video RAM
I have five HD's installed, 3SATA(2 mirrored RAID, 1 standalone), 2PATA (master/slave), and two optical drives. USB mouse, PS2 keyboard. I can't think of anything else potentially relevant, so I'll leave it at that.
Note that this behavior or similar also exists for Ubuntu 6.10 and 6.06. I have not been able to get Ubuntu on this machine at all. Prior versions of Ubuntu would get to the second progress bar before failing.
| Kissake (kissake) wrote | #1 |
| Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in casper: | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| Robert Hrovat (robi-hipnos) wrote | #3 |
| Nanley Chery (nanoman) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in casper: | |
| assignee: | nobody → nanoman |
| Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | Nanley Chery (nanoman) → nobody |
| rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in casper (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
I was able to boot with the following kernel commandline (two of the options, fb= and BOOT_DEBUG= I got from one or the other of the older installers):
BOOT_IMAGE=
I also chose the 1600x1200x32 video mode. This still caused graphic corruption on the boot screen (loading kernel progress bar), but only minor corruption on the ubuntu logo progress/activity bar that appears immediately afterwards (The bar leaves a smidgeon of itself on the left side when it first bounces off of it.)