[kwlug-disc] Older PC not booting Linux ...

[L.D. Paniak]

What motherboard is in this machine?


On 2022-06-23 16:29, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
> If it's hardware:
>     - remove and insert back RAM sticks.
>     - remove and insert back all power cables to motherboard.
>
> If it's "modern" kernel:
>     - try an old distro with old kernel.
>
> On 2022-06-23 15:30, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
>> I have an older PC with an AMD Athlon II X4 635 CPU, and 4GB of RAM.
>> There are no expansion cards (PCI, AGP or whatever). The display is
>> on board with a VGA output.
>> Testing the memory passes with no issues.
>>
>> It was working at some point before I shuffled my home servers back 
>> in January.
>>
>> Now that I am trying to repurpose it, I am not able to get it to boot 
>> at all.
>>
>> Using Xubuntu 64bit 20.04 (also with 22.04), and even Finnix (Debian 
>> based
>> small USB rescue distro), it displays the initial boot stuff, then 
>> the display
>> freezes, and there is nothing happening.
>>
>> When I removed the "quiet splash" parts from the boot command line, I 
>> found
>> the following errors:
>>
>> pci_bus 0000:02: extended config space not accessible
>>
>> Then a few more innocuous lines with 0000:00:14.4 without issues, 
>> following by this:
>>
>> pci 0000:00:15.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), 
>> reconfiguring
>>
>> Then the PC freezes at this point ...
>>
>> I searched various search engines, and there is not much there, apart 
>> from
>> trying pci=nommconf, which I did with the same results.
>>
>> Is this a hardware issue? If so, which component?
>> If it is not hardware, what else can it be?
>>
>> -- 
>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
>>
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