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#1 2010-08-13 19:28:25

hauntergeist
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From: Vienna
Registered: 2008-10-11
Posts: 56

[Solved] Installation hangs shortly after grub on Toshiba L650.

Hello.

I recently bought a Toshiba Satellite L650 notebook and I would like to install Arch Linux  (64 bit) on it. I downloaded the latest iso-file (2010.05), burned the CD and booted the laptop from the CD. When the boot screen appears, I choose "Boot Arch Linux", then /boot/archiso.img appears and then some text follows. I don't know what the text is about, but the installation process hangs at this message:
[<ffffffff8100ad20>]?kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10.

Neither do I know why this problem occurs nor do I know what to search for and how to resolve the problem. I hope that some Arch user knows how to tackle this problem.

I appreciate any answer.

Yours sincerely,
haunted

Some hardware info:
CPU: AMD Turion 2
Graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 5****
HDD: 320GB SATA disk
RAM: 4GB

Last edited by hauntergeist (2010-08-16 05:02:55)

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#2 2010-08-14 14:38:47

jeffreyldavidson
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Registered: 2008-09-05
Posts: 47

Re: [Solved] Installation hangs shortly after grub on Toshiba L650.

I have a Toshiba L505 and have the same problem. What you have to do is acpi=ht to your grub boot line. Afterward it will boot fine. Supposedly the new kernel that will coming out .35 will work fine without going through this problem. It basically is a Toshiba acpi problem the Toshiba configured for for MS.

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#3 2010-08-16 05:01:29

hauntergeist
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From: Vienna
Registered: 2008-10-11
Posts: 56

Re: [Solved] Installation hangs shortly after grub on Toshiba L650.

Thank you very much, the acpi=ht option solved the stuck up! But I think I still have to wait for an installation cd shipping with a .35 kernel, as for now I face a driver problem: I have an Atheros AR8152 Ethernet controller and the Installer can´t find the eth0-device. Even after loading the appropiate module atl1c with modprobe, the device can't be detected. So I'll have to wait for a newer kernel and hoping that it will contain the needed modules.

But that's maybe a problem for another thread. This thread is marked "solved".

Last edited by hauntergeist (2010-08-16 05:02:32)

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#4 2010-08-16 10:38:02

tpowa
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From: Lauingen , Germany
Registered: 2004-04-05
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Re: [Solved] Installation hangs shortly after grub on Toshiba L650.

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#5 2010-08-23 21:54:11

hauntergeist
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From: Vienna
Registered: 2008-10-11
Posts: 56

Re: [Solved] Installation hangs shortly after grub on Toshiba L650.

Thanks for the link, I was now able to install Arch Linux although now I have to use the acpi=off option, causing Arch to recognize the dual core cpu as a one core cpu.

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