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luken

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 37

[SOLVED] Cannot boot installer from stick "Invalid PCC GPIO: 13!"

I built a new rig lately, and was trying to install Arch Linux on it by creating a bootable USB stick and using it, but it failed at boot. Interesting thing is that I'm getting different errors with every try, but the beginning is always the same - problem with Radeon graphic card.

http://oi59.tinypic.com/14e4977.jpg

I'm using Arch image from 2015.06.01 with included kernel 4.0.4 .

My motherboard: 990FXA-UD3 Rev 4.0 (bios updated)
My graphic card which may be the source of the problem: Radeon R9 290

I don't know what additional info may be important but feel free to ask me.

Any ideas what can I try to install Arch on this setup?

PS. Hardware is working correctly, I have installed Windows 7 without a problem, and graphic card works as expected.

Added #1:
After reorganizing boot priorities in BIOS I got rid of first problem: "Ignoring BGRT: invalid status 0 (expected 1)" ( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192532 )
but "Invalid PCC GPIO: 13!" still happens.

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Last edited by luken (2015-06-25 18:55:44)

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot boot installer from stick "Invalid PCC GPIO: 13!"

Did you use dd to create the LiveUSB? Is your USB stick an USB 3.0 device? Is the USB stick connected to an USB 3.0 port? Have you tried to use a different port/USB stick?

...but "Invalid PCC GPIO: 13!" still happens.

That seems to be related to this bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87457, but it should have been fixed... what happens if you try to add the kernel parameter radeon.dpm=0 when booting (see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … management)?

--edit: PS: also please do not post full size images, but use thumbnails or links: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … s_and_code

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-06-24 06:03:53)

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rlees85

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From: Daventry, UK

Registered: 2015-04-29

Posts: 98

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Re: [SOLVED] Cannot boot installer from stick "Invalid PCC GPIO: 13!"

also to make it boot you have to frig about in the initramfs. 2 out of 3 of my PCs do this too but only on the Live CD. Never tried using a live USB. Once installed it seems fine..

cd /dev
ln sr0 archiso
cd /
mkdir /archiso
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /archiso
cd /dev/disk
mkdir by-label
ln /dev/sr0 ./ARCH_201506
cd /
exit

Note: replace all instances of /dev/sr0 with your USB pens device path
Note 2: ARCH_201506 is only relevant for June 2015 ISO.

luken

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Registered: 2014-06-26

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot boot installer from stick "Invalid PCC GPIO: 13!"

I got around it! I used "dd" (first time I was using http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ ), with "dd" I didn't have even any errors - it just rebooted, BUT - in my BIOS was this peculiar option to override boot, which mean I could boot chosen device directly from BIOS - I did it, and actual Arch booting screen appeared and it worked! I have no idea why is that but it seems like by default it was booting in some wrong way. I managed to install Arch and now during boot it throws some radeon errors but it works and I hope those aren't an issue/will go away after I install drivers. I will also credit author of this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175591 which allowed me to setup internet connection on this motherboard.

I hope it will help someone in the future.

Cheers!

Last edited by luken (2015-06-25 19:13:11)