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Evanston

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Can't boot into live enviroment

This is the strangest thing I have encountered when booting the Arch Linux live usb but I am on a HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-2285t except with a 6700xt but every time I try to boot the usb Arch Linux freezes in different places but as you can see they are all related with Found Intel integrated DMA. This happens in three different points. Point 1 is the first one at this point it is fully frozen.  Point 2 is the second one this one is not frozen but I waited for 5 minutes with no result. Point 3 is the third one it is fully frozen at this point as well. These were all run with ignore_loglevel as a kernel paramater I have also tried nomodeset with i915.modeset=0 with the same results. Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Evanston (2023-11-26 19:53:59)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Have you checked the integrity of the USB? Checksum the contents and compare with the ISO image to see if they match. Or try the USB with another machine.

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

That is not the issue because the USB boots fine on other machines something about just this computer is stopping it.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Does it boot if you disable the NVIDIA card? EDIT: no, sorry, you have AMD, which should "just work". Not sure about this one.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2023-11-26 20:49:08)

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

I understand this is really strange never seen anything quite like it.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

I suppose you could check the RAM health. That can cause freezes and broken chips from the factory are not unheard of.

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

The thing is I daily drive this computer with windows usually so I assume I would see an error. I tried the memtest and 11 hours it still passed everything before I gave up.

seth

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Try to add "maxcpus=1" to the kernel parameters.

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Sadly more of the same. Just to confirm you add maxcpus=1 at the end of the line starting with linux right?
https://prnt.sc/Ui2qbOSvDYNA
https://prnt.sc/Am1QO9CGDGpq

seth

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Yes.

Since the device apparently has an amd gpu, what if you simply blacklist i915

module_blacklist=i915

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

No change.

seth

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Ok, poking on…

module_blacklist=spi-nor

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

No change. But note I am running an older version of arch linux the 2023.09.01 version because the latest one has a kernel panic I am wondering if that would be easier to diagnose than what we are doing right now. The new one does not hang where we currently are stuck. https://prnt.sc/K2yn1QkTNcdA

seth

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

You've secureboot disabled?
Configure you RAM for the most conservative timings and/or downclock it.

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Evanston

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

Secure boot is disabled. My bios is so restricted I can't clock my ram or anything for that matter.

seth

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Re: Can't boot into live enviroment

My bios is so restricted I can't clock my ram or anything for that matter.

I am on a HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-2285t

You cannot alter the RAM settings on a *gaming* system???

Since the last thing crashing there are iwd and networkd, can you boot "systemd.unit=rescue.target"?

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