Re: New user having trouble with new install
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 09:14:33 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote:
> 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.
A nice account.
At the GRUB splash screen press 'E'. Find the line beginning 'linux' and
add
longhaul.enable=1
to the end of the line. Press F10. See how you go on.
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