Ubuntu
linux package

  1. Bug #225749
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 225749

Revision history for this message
Anthony Fok (foka) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD exits with modprobe abnormal exit on ICH8M laptop

For everybody bitten by this bug: Could you please go into BIOS setting, try to disable your LAN (Ethernet controller), and see if Ubuntu 8.04 Live CD would boot?

There is a bug in r8169.ko module in Linux kernel 2.6.24 which causes a Kernel Oops when it sees new not-yet-unrecognized Ethernet controller. r8169 in 2.6.24 recognizes RTL8101E, but not RTL8102E. That "Oops" causes some memory corruption or whatnot, and the system fails to boot.

Could you please press Shift-PageUp and see if you see a line that looks like this?

        [ 43.851] [<f8889e67>] rtl8169_init_one+0xc4/0xe9 [r8169]

If so, please let us know here. AFAIK, the official Ubuntu kernel developers are aware of this, and is actively working on a fix, with test kernel package working or almost working.

Thanks!

Anthony Fok
ThizLinux Software Co., Ltd.