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- | ====== Radeon kernel panic ====== | + | ====== Mageia 1 - Gotchas ====== |
- | While installation succeeded, kernel panicked on the first boot on my workstation equipped with Biostar TA790GX A3+ motherboard containing on-board Radeon HD3300 graphic card: | + | "[[http://www.mageia.org|Mageia]] is a fork of Mandriva Linux, supported by a not-for-profit organisation of recognized and elected contributors." |
+ | ===== ATI Radeon kernel panic ===== | ||
+ | While installation went just fine, kernel panicked on the first boot on my workstation equipped with Biostar TA790GX A3+ motherboard containing on-board Radeon HD3300 graphic card: | ||
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Oct 9 12:53:24 tio-linux kernel: fa00cc76c>] ? radeon_gem_object_create+0x8c/0x120 [radeon] | Oct 9 12:53:24 tio-linux kernel: fa00cc76c>] ? radeon_gem_object_create+0x8c/0x120 [radeon] | ||
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It turned out it's a [[https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471|known issue]] (Radeon firmware missing in initrd). | It turned out it's a [[https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471|known issue]] (Radeon firmware missing in initrd). | ||
- | ===== Workaround ===== | + | ==== Workaround ==== |
* Boot with Radeon KMS temporarily disabled - add following parameter to kernel line in GRUB: | * Boot with Radeon KMS temporarily disabled - add following parameter to kernel line in GRUB: | ||
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* reboot | * reboot | ||
- | ====== Virtual Box ====== | + | ===== Installation of Virtual Box ===== |
- | While Mageia repositories provide **virtualbox** package, it does not keep pace with the latest version available on official [[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|site]]. | + | Mageia package repository provides **virtualbox** package, but it does not keep pace with the latest version available on official [[https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|site]]. Mandriva packages are pre-built against older bits (Python 2.6, openssl 0.9.8), but [[http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.4/VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.4_74291_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm|openSUSE 11.4]] package seems to fit in Mageia's environment (Python 2.7, openssl 1.0.0). |
- | openSUSE 11.4 package seems to be able to cope with Mageia's environment | + | |
- | (Mandriva versions require older bits - Python 2.6, openssl 0.9.8). | + |