Re: Dell Optiplex 320 and Morphix

Hi Matthew,

On 1/14/07, Matthew Ray  wrote:
> So I have a new Dell Optiplex 320 and a month-old build of Morphix
> with Etch sources and this machine will not boot at all.  Googling
> around says to add "pci=nomsi" to my boot options for the kernel, so I
> added them to the end of the grub line and still nothing.  Has anyone
> else played with these machines?  Dell seems to be working extra hard

Nope not tired with these machines. My Dell laptop still has problems
booting morphix, it got a usb-cd drive.
Googling around it looks like its not just Morphix.
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2006-December/000092.html

> shipment of Dimension C521s because of their sheer crappiness).  I'm
> not getting any debugging messages, just the output of the kernel to
> be booted with the options.  My plan of attack is to grab the latest
> of everything and try again, but I thought I might ask if anyone here
> knows better.
Try using text mode for grub rather than the graphical. Any output
would be a help debugging.

Regards,
Brendan

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