Trying to try Kubunto...

[Brian Chabot]

Yesterday I decided it was time to give Kubuntu 6.10 a try.  Now the
only system I can realistically reload the OS on at the moment is my
laptop, so that's my guinea pig.  (It is a Toshiba Satellite M45 S359)

The online docs seem to indicate this should work:
http://www.cantrip.org/toshiba-m45.html


I burned the CD, verified the burn and put it in the CDROM of the laptop
and rebooted.....

Kubuntu's boot menu comes up.  I choose the install/live option and hit
enter...

Progress bar...

Error and a dump into BusyBox.

BusyBox gives me the error:

/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

..then gives me a prompt (initramfs)....

Hrmm... CTRL-ALT-F1 shows the initial error that flashed VERy fast on
the initial boot:
--------------------------------------------------
[17179570.364000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device
000:05:06.0
cp: unable to open '/root/var/log/': No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or
directory
mount: Mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: Mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init
--------------------------------------------------

CTRL-ALT-F8 brought me back to BusyBox.

Looking around online this error (the PCI line) is supposed to indicate
that the PCI device is probably unseated or otherwise foobar.

A reboot into Mandriva (which works fine) tells me that the PCI device
at 000:05:06.0 is:

05:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus controller

Mandriva tells me in dmesg that:
PCI:  Bus #06 (-#09) is hidden behind transparent bridge #05 (-#05) (try
'pci=assign-busses')
Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently
...
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 000:05:06.0
...
PCI: Cannot allocate esource region 0 of device 000:05:06.0
...

Then continues to boot normally.

Adding 'pci=assign-busses' to the kernel boot changes the PCI address,
but the errors remain...

So... since I don't use the cardbus slot, I could generally care less as
long as it boots.

...which... Kubuntu doesn't.

I've tried one at a time and all together the (rather well documented)
kernel parameters I need to run Mandriva... and... BusyBox again.

WTF?

With all the params from Mandriva, I get the same errors, but add to
those a bunch od PnPBIOS errors, too... and it suggests I try the new
kernel parameter: "pnpbios=off"

Ok....

So now I'm adding:
irqpoll noapic noacpi acpi=off pci=assign-busses pnpbios=off

...same PCI error (on the new address from the assign-busses)...

Kerplunk.  Back to BusyBox.

So now, I've read the pages I could find online and they were pretty
useless.  I've tried everything I can think of and failed to get the
live CD to even boot.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Brian