Mandriva 2008.1 hangs at startup

[mgielissen]

The KDE live cd from Mandriva 2008.1 boots fine. But after installing to SSD, Mandriva hangs in de the bootprocess at UDEV. The last message I can see, it stops after finding the Webcam

 

[jdeisenberg]

Yes, I am having the exact same problem. I think it's actually the wireless card that's crashing. If you install the 2.6.25 kernel, that fixes it (I know it worked on another atom processor machine.) Unfortunately, to do this, you have to turn off the networking..and the BIOS on the AA1 doesn't seem to let you do this . I must research the problem further, or get the latest 2009 beta Mandriva and give that a try.

 

[jdeisenberg]

Oooh, this is weird. I started up with noapic nolapic acpi=off, and while I was writing the previous post, it finally booted up; it just must have taken its sweet time to do so.

I'm going to install the updated kernel in any case. The specific RPM is kernel-desktop-2.6.24.5-2mnb-1-1mnb1.i586.rpm

 

[westonpf]

For me Mandriva seems to have problems when it gets the 'hda' probe, it hangs for ages before eventually starting up, looks like it is having problems with the SSD.

 

[tot31]

After the installation, just use the parameter noapic, nolapic, acphi=off at the boot menu. It'll boot fine, then just download the latest kernel from their repository and install it and reboot and everything will be ok.

Here's my screenshots of my AAO with Mandriva 2008.1

Desktop

Compiz Fusion 3D Cube