Re: Dell Optiplex 320 and Morphix

I did a lot of searching around and it looks like grub has issues with
this chipset for most distributions.  The bootloader used by the
1-4-07 Knoppix works (syslinux) and a recent Debian Etch CD works if I
add the argument "pci=nomsi".  So I installed Etch on the box and
lilo, and I plan on having lilo boot the Morphix CD (I think this
should work).  If this sounds weird, it's because I need to have the
OS on the CD for security and the harddrive is for data.

The output of grub is simply to show the kernel chosen with the
arguments, and then it hangs.  Just like:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-grub-mXXj517/[email protected]/msg10791.html

I was looking into replacing grub with lilo on the basemod, but I
couldn't really sort that out.  Also, is there an authoritative page
on replacing the kernel used by the basemod?  Are there any special
kernel configurations, or is it just a vanilla kernel?

Thanks a lot!
Matt


On 1/16/07, Brendan M. Sleight <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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