Lupu freezes while booting

[Saladin]

I'm booting lupu 5.2.8, and it keeps freezing on the ISO Linux screen. I can tweak some options in the BIOS (Enable Boot Menu, Network Boot, Recovery, stuff like that) and get it to boot, but after I reboot, that particular configuration no longer works, and I need to change all those options again to get it to boot. Is there a permanent solution to this?

[Semme]

Here's a thought >> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 651#767651

[Fossil]

Saladin,
You have given no information to go on. We need details. To start: What is your computer - desktop, laptop? Is it new, is it old? Processor speed, how much memory, video card, hard drive? Etc. Do you simply boot from the CD into RAM; or is this a frugal install?
If the newly applied configuration in the BIOS is saved but does not hold - by any chance is the computer's clock showing the wrong date - is the internal battery dead? Otherwise, there is a whole host of possibilities to go wrong! Is the CD good - or is it perhaps corrupted?

[ardvark]

Hi...

In case we need it, could you also open a terminal and post the output of...

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lspci -nn

and...

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lsusb

Thanks!

[Saladin]

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sh-4.1# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2944] (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2948] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:2930] (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem [8086:2932] (rev 03)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002a] (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 02)
07:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. SD/MMC Host Controller [197b:2382]
07:00.2 SD Host controller [0805]: JMicron Technology Corp. Standard SD Host Controller [197b:2381]
07:00.3 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. MS Host Controller [197b:2383]
07:00.4 System peripheral [0880]: JMicron Technology Corp. xD Host Controller [197b:2384]
sh-4.1# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001
sh-4.1# 

It's an Acer Laptop, a few years old, but new enough to have come with Vista -- 2GHz, 2 gigs of ram, 160 GB hard drive. I'm booting from the CD, and the CD is good -- works fine on other laptops.

The BIOS configuration does hold -- it's just that the right configuration for one boot somehow isn't the right configuration for the next. The clock does maintain the correct date. The big battery that lets you use the laptop when it's not plugged in is going bad, but the little internal battery seems to be working fine.

[bigpup]

Maybe CD drive problem.
Run a cleaning disk in it.
Check for dust bunnies.