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cloudstrife

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From: Santa Clara, CA

Registered: 2008-01-13

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Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

Hi all,
I am new to Arch. Though I have previous experience of Linux I would call it scratching the surface.
I installed Arch with core 2007.08-2 using CD installation
The installation went clean I guess. Then I did the reboot and after selecting Arch from grub, the screen went blank and nothing appeared.
And also I added vga=773  to the kernel options in menu.lst when Arch asks for creating the menu.lst file (during installation)
I have no clue as to how this happened. What do I do?
I hope the information I provided is sufficient

Thanks and Regards
Cloud

Last edited by cloudstrife (2008-01-13 05:42:20)

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Mr Green

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

Ok post your menu.lst and disc set up .... may just be its not pointing to Arch install....

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cloudstrife

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From: Santa Clara, CA

Registered: 2008-01-13

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

Ok post your menu.lst and disc set up .... may just be its not pointing to Arch install....

Hi Green,
I have not understood by "disc setup". Do you mean the disk partitioning?

Thanks and Regards
Cloud

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

disc setup, as in how many HD do u have in the computer and whats installed on them and in what order. We need the whole nine yards.

cloudstrife

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From: Santa Clara, CA

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

disc setup, as in how many HD do u have in the computer and whats installed on them and in what order. We need the whole nine yards.

menu.lst:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda11 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,10)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda11 ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

cfdisk:

sda1             Boot            Primary       NTFS                   []                    20974.47     
     sda5                             Logical       Linux ReiserFS                                5996.23
     sda6                             Logical       Linux ext3                                      98.71
     sda7                             Logical       Linux ReiserFS                               12995.95
     sda8                             Logical       Linux swap / Solaris                          1003.49
     sda9                             Logical       Linux ReiserFS                                5000.98
     sda10                            Logical       Linux ReiserFS                                3989.27
     sda11                            Logical       Linux ReiserFS                                5000.98
     sda12                            Logical       Linux ReiserFS                                4992.75

I have another sata hard disk but its only a storage drive. All my installs are on sda not on sdb.
Arch was the last linux to be installed.

Hope this conforms to the requirements.
Thanks in advance

Regards
Cloud

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jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

(hd0,11) then, if arch is on sda12, if not then I dunno.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-13 16:17:54)

cloudstrife

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From: Santa Clara, CA

Registered: 2008-01-13

Posts: 44

Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

(hd0,11) then, if arch is on sda12, if not then I dunno.

Hi Jacko,
Actually sda11 is the / of Arch and sda12 is the /home.
So it has to be (hd0,10)
Correct me if I am wrong.

Anyway I have had progress. I reinstalled Arch and now it boots but it hangs when it reaches,

ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCIO (0000:00)

I will try googling for this. If I get any success will post ASAP
I will start a new thread for this

Thanks and regards
Cloud

Last edited by cloudstrife (2008-01-13 19:08:57)

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Bob Day

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

Somehow this looks a bit like this 'bug' I filed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9109

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Screen Blanks after Fresh Installation of Arch 2007.08-2

Somehow this looks a bit like this 'bug' I filed: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9109

only relevant if the user is using a usb drive according to your bug report.

I have a usb flash drive and I have never noticed this problem. I use award bios with a NF4 chipset. What chipset u have?

I would update the bios if I could, but don't do it unless u know what u are doing and are sure it will fix your problem. U can ruin a mobo trying to update it's firmware.

Last edited by jacko (2008-01-13 21:25:30)