I just got back from vacation and my mythbox won't boot. If I try to boot off the hd or the km install cd, I get the booting kernel....... message and something like

flashes up and the boot process starts all over.

I can boot a partially functional Mepis (not all drives will mount and those that do show as empty, eth0 not found) off a USB thumb drive, but haven't been able to figure out what's really wrong. It gets the same error message, but continues on instead of rebooting.

Unfortunately, I don't have any spare parts I can swap out to try and narrow down the problem.

My (Dragonish) system specs:
Intel DG965WHMKR
Intel Core 2 Duo E6400
Kingston 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300)
EVGA 256-P2-N549-TR GeForce 7600GS
Soundblaster Live! (or maybe Audigy - couldn't get onboard sound to work and had this laying around)
2 Hauppauge PVR-150
1 300G IDE HD
1 500G IDE HD
1 SATA DVD-R

You did input the appropriate items at the bootprompt when booting off of a CD?
If you are still having problems:
First recheck that all your cards etc are properly seated, fans spinning OK etc.
Then if this OK, then disconnect/remove all items that are not necessary for booting, such as your capture cards, extra HDDs etc, then check if it boots up OK. If it works OK, there might be a problem with the other items that you pulled out, if not, try running the memory check at boot to make sure that your memory is OK. If this passes, it appears you may have a problem with the other items on your base system.

Bruce S.

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your problems arent related to the pci error. that message is displayed for that mobo - human might be able to say why. you can ignore it.

Hi,

Smells of a power supply being flaky. May try disconnecting the power from hard drives ( reduce loading ) and then trying to run a live cd ( dsl or knoppix ) It is a simple way of checking most of the hardware.

Mike

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

Yes. The system was fully functional 2 weeks ago. I had upgraded about two weeks before that, so I remembered to add "intelfix all-generic-ide pci=nommconf" to the boot prompt when booting from CD.


After checking everything, no change - it restarts after the PCI error.


I pulled all of the cards and no change.


I left it running overnight and after something like 39 passes, there were no errors.


I'm assuming you mean MB, CPU or PSU - I was afraid of that.



No change after trying that - it restarts after the PCI error.

Intelfix adds the following to the boot args:
"APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce all-generic-ide pci=nommconf apm=power-off quiet"

so you don't need the second arg.

It seems to me that you may indeed have a hardware problem. I've run very similar combinations with all sorts of cards on many versions of KM and all work, so I doubt that it's your *choice" of hardware, rather a faulty component. That PCI error is normal.

Are your CPU, RAM and PSU under warranty? They aren't particularly expensive, but replacing them one by one may be expensive. I'd start with the PSU, since your most likely to have one lying about.

Good luck

Mike

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intelfix alone didn't work for me. I found a post here (which I can't seem to find now) where adding "all-generic-ide pci=nommconf" worked for the poster and it worked for me. Not logical, but if it works...

Very strange, since you were effectively typing the same args twice on the same line.

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