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

[Ron Singh]

SInce that CPU was a current back in 2010-2012, I would wager that the
20.04/22.04 LTS versions will not work with this older mobo. I had success
in a similar situation by loading Ubu 16.04 and then doing a dist upgrade
to 18.04 with the kernel being held back. I haven't tried upgrading that PC
to 20.04 yet.

Try Xubu 16.04 and see how you fare, unless you've done so already?

Thanks,

Ron S.



On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 4:30 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 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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