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

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 1:12 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On 2022-06-24 11:55, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> > Yeah, this "server" was replaced back in January.
>
> This begs the question that nobody asked...  What was it running before?
>

Ubuntu LTS, various versions since ~ 2010 or thereabouts, up to 20.04 last
January.


> > One more test: using pci=conf2 makes the PC go further in the boot
> process
> > then says it can't find a filesystem (or something to that effect). It
> > is the same
> > as when using pci=off.
>
> Root filesystem?  Are you booting off USB?  If so, then try
>      rootdelay=10
> which will delay booting for 10sec, giving USB enough time to settle.
>

Thanks. Good to know.
Tried that, with the same result.

I am giving up on the motherboard.

-- 
Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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