clonezilla fails to boot with KMS

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#221 clonezilla fails to boot with KMS

Milestone: stable_clonezilla_live

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: KMS (1)

Priority: 6

Updated: 2015-07-09

Created: 2015-01-27

Creator: Eugene

Private: No

When I try to boot 20150127-vivid with KMS it start to booting untill the following appears:

starting version 218
Network interface NamePolicy= disabled on kernel command line, ignoring.

and it stops. It's not freeasing because I can reboot with Shift+Alf+SysRq+B. But it stops.

My graphics is Radeon HD2600XT.

Discussion

Steven Shiau - 2015-02-11

Normally this is Linux kernel/hardware support issue.
How about different versions of Clonezilla live?
Like 20150210-vivid, 20150210-utopic or 2.3.2-18 on
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
They comes with different version of Linux kernel so the results might be different.

Steven.

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Eugene - 2015-02-12

Today I've tried 20150210-vivid. After on the screen the following line appears:

starting version 218
it stops. Nothing heppens then. All I can is just reboot with Alt+Shift+SysRq+B hotkey. I remember in a past it worked but not remember actually when. Any ideas?

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Eugene - 2015-02-12

BTW, my desktop system (Kubuntu 14.10) never failed to boot through KMS - several years already. With different kernels.

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Eugene - 2015-06-17

Current Clonezilla: 20150608-vivid and 20150617-wily also fails to boot through KMS. It stops on next line:

fb: switching to radeondrmfb from VESA VGA

It's not freezes but stops and does nothing. Please, fix it.

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Steven Shiau - 2015-06-20

Could you please show me how you start KVM with Clonezilla live iso? I'd like to reproduce the issue here with the same method.

Steven.

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Eugene - 2015-06-20

I'm not starting Clonezilla through KVM, I starting it from USB Flash drive through grub4dos.

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Steven Shiau - 2015-06-21

Oh, it's KMS, not KVM. My bad.
So how about the normal mode instead of KMS? Any issue?

Steven.

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Eugene - 2015-06-21

With normal mode it's ok but except that screen resolution not optimal as it should be. Many versions ago KMS worked well and screen resolution, also fonts, looked better.

P.S. I have wide screen display with 1680x1050 native resolution so nor 600x800 nor 1024x768 aren't the optimal options.

Last edit: Eugene 2015-06-21

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Steven Shiau - 2015-06-22

So how about giving Clonezilla live 2.4.2-11 a try?
http://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
It comes with Linux kernel 4 so the results might be different.

Steven.

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Eugene - 2015-06-23

Yes, it comes with Linux 4 but it has no nonfree firmware for my card:

[drm:radeon_pci_probe[radeon]] *ERROR* radeon kernel mode setting for R600 or later requires firmware-linux-nonfree

Last edit: Eugene 2015-06-23

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Steven Shiau - 2015-06-27

Thanks. We use the Linux kernel from our upstream, i.e. Ubuntu. This kind of kernel regression is from our upstream. Therefore please give upstream live system a try, e.g. The wily one:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
If the issue still remains, please report to Ubuntu bugs system and once it's fixed in the upstream, for sure it will be fixed in Clonezilla live.

Steven.

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Eugene - 2015-06-27

Look, I'm using Kubuntu/Xubuntu several years already and there was no problem with KMS on my machine:

~$ uname -a
Linux p5q3 4.1.0-040100-generic #201506220235 SMP Mon Jun 22 06:36:19 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid

P.S. But anyway I can check Wily if it'll help of course.

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Steven Shiau - 2015-07-07

OK, please keep me posted.
Thanks.

Steven.

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Eugene - 2015-07-09

Just checked Wily daily iso. No problems as I expected. The same as with 14.04, 14.10, and 15.04.

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Steven Shiau - 2015-07-09

OK, thanks for reporting that.

Steven.

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