1 Topic by rlinsurf

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Topic: Cannot boot - devd (Killed) messages

I'm trying to boot an old Dell / Pentium 4-HT 2.8GHz using the latest gParted Live CD v. 0.14.1-6-i486. I've tried using various boot modes, but I always get the same thing.  A bunch of devd (Killed) messages:

devd[50]: 'sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda1' [170] terminated by signal 9 (Killed)

and finally at the end:

106.016964] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
106.032322] ata3.01: configured for UDMA/133
106.032364] ata3.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0
106.032408] ata3: EH complete
devd[48]: timeout: killing '/sbin/modprobe -b scsi:t-0x05' [138]
devd[49]: timeout: killing '/sbin/modprobe -b scsi:t-0x05' [139]
devd[51]: timeout: killing 'sbin/modprobe -b sg' [143]

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
jeffrey

2 Reply by gedakc

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Re: Cannot boot - devd (Killed) messages

GParted Live is based on Debian Live.

As such, could you give Debian live (upstream) a try:
http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/ … esktop.iso
or
http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/ … onfree.iso
If it works, then the issue is definitely on GParted live. If Debian live fails, then we have to report the issue to Debian.

3 Reply by rlinsurf

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Re: Cannot boot - devd (Killed) messages

Hm. This is over a gig. This old Dell only has a CD drive. I don't think it can read a DVD.

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Re: Cannot boot - devd (Killed) messages

If you have a large enough USB flash drive, perhaps you try booting from that?

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Re: Cannot boot - devd (Killed) messages

A potential problem with computers of the "pentium 4 era" is that the older ones had USB 1.1 ports, that are quite slow. Since late 2001 or since 2002, most motherboards had USB 2 ports on board.
I added a PCI card with 4 USB2 ports in such an old computer with 1.1 ports only (Asus P4B motherboard).
Booting from USB was supported by the BIOS, even before 2000, as I remember (you need perhaps to enable it from the BIOS setup).

If you have nearby a IDE dvd drive that you can connect to the ATA port, I think it is highly possible that it will be detected well by the BIOS.

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