Re: Newly installed Sarge: (1) halts at 8529A IRQ 7 (2) cannot start gdm: X server is missing.
On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:06:55PM -0300, Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> Hello People,
>
> I had Knoppix 3.8.1 intalled on an old AMD K7 Duron 700 with 128Mb RAM, all
> OnBoard except the wireless eth card.
> It worked OK.
>
> Then I installed Sarge from scratch (keeping the Knoppix partitions but
> re-installing the Sarge FS on it) using a netdist CD.
> The CD part went very smoothly, but when it first booted from the HD I got:
>
> (1) Spurious 8529A interrupt IRQ7; and it halted.
>
> Using another PC I looked that up in google and saw that it was probably
> related to the ACPI code on the 2.4 Kernel.
>
> So I tried with the 2.6 Kernel but I had 2 problems:
>
> (2.a) DHCP didn't work (and I tried several times) (but it did for Kernel
> 2.4)
> (2.b) Leaving net unconfigured, it stops at some point saying that it
> couldn't locate the Kernel image for 2.6. Either it is not on the netinst CD
> or it was trying to get it from the internet (and of course it failed)
>
> So I had to stick with the 2.4 Kernel.
>
> I tried adding "linux acpi=off" on the CD prompt and installing all over
> again but I still had the IRQ problem.
>
> So I was about to install Knoppix back again when I read in its help window
> to try: "knoppix acpi=off noapci pci=bios" for "broken BIOS"... I figured my
> PC could have a broken BIOS so I tried those parameters with the debian
> netinst CD.
> It then passed the first HD boot and moved on with the installation.
> Yet, after it finished downloading and configuring all the packages I got a
> error saying that "Some packages couldn't be installed"... but it didn't say
> which ones, so I just ignored it and finished the installation.
>
> When I rebooted (for the first time with the system apparently fully
> installed) I got back the IRQ problem, so I just rebooted again and again
> until it passed (I eventually determined that the message always apperared
> but 4 out of 5 times it also halted)
>
Did you use "pci=bios" when you rebooted? You can put that into
/etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub/menu.lst depending which boot loader you
use.
> So I typed "apt-get -f installed" and it download XFree86-common and spend
> quite a lot of time updating packages.
> I though it was it, but after I rebooted (about 5 times to get past the IRQ
> halt); I still get the console prompt and the error that the X server is
> missing.
>
> Effectively, xinit is trying to execute "/usr/bin/X11R6/X" but I don't have
> that X on my system.
>
> Any clues?
>
apt-get install xserver-xfree86
apt-get install x-window-system
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