Re: New user having trouble with new install
On 7/11/15, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri 10 Jul 2015 at 21:29:23 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
>
>> I'm a hardware guy, and not a linux wonk, so I hope you'll all be
>> gentle and use words without too many syllables.
>>
>> I've just completed the "small cd" internet install of the current
>> distribution on a small-footprint pc based on the VIA EDEN ESP
>> 6000. I went with all the defaults and it seemed to complete
>> uneventfully. However, on boot it tanks with a "microcode: no
>> support for this CPU vendor" error.
>
> We suppose "tanks" means "something very unexpected happened" but also
> we need to know what you saw during the booting and how the machine
> behaved.
Now that I'm fresh, it seems less obvious that the error I reported above
is what's killing it. Here's the whole boot-to-crash process:
The GRUB bootloader splash screen appears, and after a few seconds
it proceeds to load the default, Debian GNU/Linux. Then it homes the
cursor and says:
Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-586
Loading initial ramdisk
Then the screen clears (i.e goes back to text mode) and it reports:
[2.91457 (this number varies)] microcode: no support for this CPU vendor
Then it does some fscking, then:
[numbers] longhaul: option "enable" not set. Aborting.
The screen clears again, sometimes - not always - the login prompt
appears for just a flash, then the machine evidently crashes - there's a
screen blank, a flash of random character data, another blanking, then
(after about a minute) what I suppose you folks would call a WSOD
appears - white screen, frowny face, "Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a
system administrator" message. And that's where it stays until I hit the
reset.
Jonathan
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