boot issue

[mhoke63]

Put together a new computer and having an issue. Searching multiple forums with no answer to this Mageia 2 installed just fine. When it tries to boot, this happens. No error. It just freezes with this screen:

mageia2Boot1.jpg (787.61 KiB) Viewed 591 times

All hardware working properly. memtest shows no errors at all

System Specs:

Mobo: Asus Sabertooth 990FX/Gen3 Rev 2.0
CPU: AMD FX 8350. Vishera core, 8 core, 4.0 GHz
Video Card: Asus Nvidia 660 GTX 660Ti 3 GB

The only thing I could think of would be an issue with the video card. But, the chipset has been around for a while and would think it would work fine. The video card options for the install only had the nvidia 400 series or later. Any ideas?

[claire]

From a quick google of the error, it's been reported in other distros too, but there is very little information of any workaround unfortunately. Mostly unresolved forum posts. It seems to be a kernel bug related to your cpu family.

Could you please create a bug report for it https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly You can set 'kernel' as the Source RPM.

Also it seems to have chopped off some of the error, could you remove 'splash quiet' from the kernel options in grub when booting. Press F3 at the grub menu and choose Default, then use your keyboard as normal to delete that bit of the text that it shows and press enter to boot. It won't prevent the problem but it will stop the graphical boot process and just show the text output.

Please add the photo (or new photo) as an attachment to the bug report. If it's too big to upload (it only accepts 1Mb) then host it somewhere such as tinypic.com or flickr and add a link to it in your comment.

Have you tried with Mageia 3 RC? Grab one of the livedvd's from https://www.mageia.org/en/3/

Thanks

[mhoke63]

I wasn't able to get any other shot with a quiet splash. Nothing I was able to capture, anyways. However, the good news is that Mageia 3 RC works perfectly fine. I used the 64 bit live dvd. It booted live just fine. Installed just fine, and boots just fine after install. Setting up repos and updates work perfectly. I haven't worked with it a whole lot yet, but I haven't seen any bugs yet. We'll see what happens when I start installing the development packages.
There is another matter that isn't a fault of Mageia, but it is an issue. Do not partition a Solid State Drive to run windows and Mageia like you would a normal drive. Windows creates 3 partitions, 1 for boot, 1 for something I haven't figured out yet, (both these partitions are small) and the 3rd for the regular install. The boot partition has to be how Windows did it. Installing anything else, even an earlier version of Windows, will do stuff to the MBR and Windows won't load. This is true with windows 7, unknown with other versions. Installing Mageia on a secondary drive works, but no matter the configuration you have in your BIOS, you cannot get grub to dual boot it. I have tried several things, no dice. The only way to dual boot Windows and Mageia with a Solid State Drive is to 1. Install Mageia on the SSD and Windows on a regular drive, or 2. switch BIOS boot priorities every time you want to switch Operating Systems.