2009/9/22 Alan Searchwell <bigduppy@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > OK, so now I've got my flash drives booting on this puppy, it boots up to the > point wher all the icons are lit and then the screen just goes blank. I have > tried booting with on screen debugging enabled and after several attemtps > I've finally landed in kdl. The message is: > > PANIC: could not read block 2: bytesRead: -1, reeor operation timed out > > Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land... > Thread 85 "/dev/net/rtl8169/0" running on cpu 3 > kdebug> > > One thing worthy of note is that this last situation was after I connected my > ethernet cable. Before that, it seems to have hung up very late in the boot > process. A couple of times it seems to have switched graphics mode since the > on screen debugging was replaced with a blank screen. What can I type in kdl > that would get me some info that would be helpfull to developers? > > Are there any particular things that I should be turning off in safe mode > that might take the process further along? I would just start with booting with FailSafe video mode with a selected resolution that you know you monitor can handle. My Atom based machine won't work with the intel video driver either. -- Cheers David