On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:01:38PM -0600, Micheal Smith wrote: > To all Glorious Saviors: > Installation goes smooth. When asked, during installation, I install > device-specific drivers. For the record, this is the AMD64 distribution. > So, whenever my IOMMU Contoller is enabled on the UEFI of the motherboard, > I get this error: [ 1.669503] AMD-Vi: Event Logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT > device=2:00.0 domain=0x0017 address=0x00000000be9f9880 flags=0x0010] > filling my screen. Apparently, this is a known issue with the AMD-VI IOMMU. The solution (according to the interwebs) is to add "iommu=soft" to the kernel command line (and disable the hardware IOMMU). Hopefully, the errors below are due to the lack of proper IOMMU and using the software IOMMU will help. > When IOMMU is disabled, I get along the lines of [ 2 OR 3 OR 4 OR 5 . > (randomnumber)]usb 3-5 device descriptor read/64, error -32. > Somehow, I've also generated an error along the lines of: [ 20.979743] > nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PMC unhandled INTR 0x44000000 > The only success I've had in dealing with this is when I tried to use > clonezilla, it was having serious problems. I was able to get *it* > working (the Ubuntu-based version) with the following command in the boot > parameters: "quiet splash usbcore.old_scheme_first=1". However, no such > luck with Debian.... > The install process is fine. I just *can't* get it to boot. > Sincerely, > A User
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