Can't boot Fedora 11 Live CD!!

aidenstar07 · #1 30th July 2009, 05:25 AM

Ok, so I already know what the problem is, which is that I have an AGP Nvidia graphic card. When I try to boot the live cd it freezes. I've done some research and I've already tried using "nouveau.noagp=1" as a Boot Option from the live cd. But it says unknown boot option ignoring. And it still fails to boot up. Am I entering it wrong or is there some other unknown problem? Please help me... Im anxious to begin using Fedora. I'd appreciate any assistance you guys can offer.

When it is trying to boot...it also says IO APIC resources could not be allocated. Hope that helps.

aidenstar07 · #2 30th July 2009, 06:26 AM

No one has any knowledge on this? I would appreciate any help. The "nouveau.noagp=1" command doesn't seem to be working. Is there another workaround?

ryptyde · #3 30th July 2009, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by aidenstar07

No one has any knowledge on this? I would appreciate any help. The "nouveau.noagp=1" command doesn't seem to be working. Is there another workaround?

I have a older desktop with a GeForce 6200 AGP card and when I boot the F11 livecd the same message as yours is displayed "IO APIC resources could not be allocated" but it still continues booting but does take a while to the login screen.

After getting to the desktop everything displays fine but it is not using the "nouveau" driver but the "nv" one so you may want to try that at the boot menu.

aidenstar07 · #4 30th July 2009, 07:37 PM

Thanks for your reply.
I am also running on an older desktop, with an nVIDIA ™ TNT2 ™ Vanta LT AGP Graphics Card.
When you ran your live cd did you run it just the way it was? or did you enter the "nouveau.noagp=1" command.
Because as I mentioned that command doesn't seem to be working, as it says Unknown boot option ignoring.
Also, when I try running the live cd without running the command it continues past the part wher the blue and white bands pass to the Fedora 11, then it freezes for a while and continues. The screen flickers a few times and after it settles on a screen that says. nouveau...free something all throughout the screen. And my cd drive just kind of stops. Should I wait a while on that screen or what?

Sorry for the long post, I hope it helps.

ryptyde · #5 30th July 2009, 08:00 PM

I just ran it without any arguments and it proceeded to the login screen. It took a while maybe 3-4 minutes to load. You can probably add the "nv" to the kernel line at boot menu. Not sure if you just add nv to the line or need to add ie video=nv or something similar.

aidenstar07 · #6 30th July 2009, 08:06 PM

Ok...thanks I'll give it a try.

aidenstar07 · #7 30th July 2009, 08:29 PM

OK.... I tried but the cd seems to settle on a black screen that says:
nouveau 0000:01:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 1
nouveau 0000:01:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0
All the way to the bottom, I wait on this screen for like 10 min. and nothing changes, and the cd stops running.

The current Boot options are without any changes: vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Fedora-11-i686-Live rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb check

Hope you can help me.

ryptyde · #8 30th July 2009, 09:30 PM

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Originally Posted by aidenstar07

OK.... I tried but the cd seems to settle on a black screen that says:
nouveau 0000:01:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 1
nouveau 0000:01:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0
All the way to the bottom, I wait on this screen for like 10 min. and nothing changes, and the cd stops running.

The current Boot options are without any changes: vmlinuz0 initrd=initrd0.img root=CDLABEL=Fedora-11-i686-Live rootfstype=auto ro liveimg quiet rhgb check

Hope you can help me.

Mine reads the same except for the last word "check" and at no time during boot up does it mention "nouveau" when I press "escape" and watch the boot sequence. I don't remember how but there is a way to stop the nouveau driver from loading and use nv or vesa. I'll have to search a bit or someone else can pipe in if they know off hand how to disable it.

aidenstar07 · #9 30th July 2009, 09:35 PM

Ok thanks for the insight, I'll also try to track down a way to disable nouveau. Thanks for all your help.

ryptyde · #10 30th July 2009, 09:49 PM

Ok reading the release notes it says to use "xdriver=vesa" boot option as a basic video driver or even try "xdriver=nv" and see if it helps.

aidenstar07 · #11 30th July 2009, 10:00 PM

Thanks...I'm on it.

aidenstar07 · #12 30th July 2009, 10:25 PM

Ok...unfortunately it didn't help. It still stops on the page that says:
nouveau 0000:01:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 1
nouveau 0000:01:01:00.0: nouveau_fifo_free: freeing fifo 0
I'm beginning to think that my graphics card may be too old to run Fedora 11, is that possible?
Pressing escape to watch the boot sequence also doesn't say anything about nouveau. The boot seems successful and everything shows "ok". But for some reason it seems to stop after okaying - Starting sm-client
it doesn't show anything after that and just completely stops.
Hopefully someone can share some insight on this. Thanks for all the help.