Bug 135404

Summary:	Failure to boot Asus P5GD2 Board with suse-10.0 CDs/DVDs
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Bernd Melchers <melchers>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Bernd Melchers 2005-11-23 21:49:08 UTC

Asus P5GD2-Premium Board
Pentium 640 CPU, 1 GB RAM
PS/2 Keyboard Cherry RS 6000 M
ATi X600 Graphics Powercolor
SATA Maxtor 250 GB disk

I maintain some systems with the above configuration.
They boot flawlessly with Knoppix, suse-9.2 and Windows XP-CDs.
They work flawlessly with Knoppix, suse-9.2 and Windows XP.
But it is NOT possible to boot them with (suse-9.3 or) Suse-10
installation or live CDs or DVDs, neither x64 nor x32 versions.
I upgraded mb bios and DVD-Drive-Firmware, nothing helps.
I changed BIOS PnP/OS, ACPI-2 and APIC Options, nothing helps.

I see this:
I insert the optical medium, boot, the Bonjour-Screen appears. Then
when the grub boot menu appears, the keyboard is absolutely dead.
So it is not possible to select an boot option. Therefore, after the
time out, grub boots into the "boot from harddisk"-Menu-item. And dies.
I checked the MD5-Sum of the optical disks and
could use them to install other computer with other mainboards.

Comment 1 Jiri Srain 2005-11-24 08:57:34 UTC

Steffen? The keyboard is initially dead in isolinux...

Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-11-24 10:41:16 UTC

Sounds like the ATI hardware bug. Use the ISO from bug 114804 comment 29.