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mark1977

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 28

Cannot boot soon after fresh install

Hi,

This is almost a fresh install of Arch 64 on my desktop. Really the only change I made was to install the r8168 driver in place of the r8169 for my ethernet card.

Anyway directly after doing that I reboot and find I can no longer boot into arch. Here is a photo of what the screen looks like:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2ps4nye&s=5

Sorry I don't have any software to rotate that image. Can anyone give me a clue as to what's going on here?!

Thanks,

Mark

p.s. You can read about my dirver problems here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=138605

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: Cannot boot soon after fresh install

Add pcie_aspm=force to your kernel cmdline.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1077539
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=136989
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1076856

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mark1977

Member

Registered: 2011-11-03

Posts: 28

Re: Cannot boot soon after fresh install

Thanks for the links falcon. The first link seems to describe my problem well. If I use their solution to add pice_aspm=off to the kernel line, the problem is not solved. If I use their main solution to add pice_aspm=force to the kernel line, I simply get a different problem (cannot access tty). Here is a screenshot of the new problem:

http://tinypic.com/r/2061qo2/5

And here is my menu.lst

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution

# general configuration:
timeout   15
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Win7
title Win7
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

# (2) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda7 ro pcie_aspm=force
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img

# (3) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda7 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img

# (0) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
##makeactive
#chainloader +1

# (1) Gentoo
title Gentoo
root   (hd0,4)
kernel /kernel-Mark2-gentoo real_root=/dev/sda4 ro
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.1.6-gentoo

I have a Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 LGA1155 motherboard. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Mark