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Re: Comodo Rescue DIsc Lockup while Booting !!

crownstar — Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:17 pm

Author: crownstar

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:17 pm

use following menu.lst entries to make it work

First : Copy the entire contents of the cd to a folder on your USB flash drive
example : K:\iso\Comodo\

menu.lst:
title Comodo Rescue Disk 1.1.232326.14
kernel /iso/comodo/boot/bzimage
initrd /iso/comodo/boot/rootfs.gz

^^THIS^^

Reply from COmodo Fourm to a possible solution to my problem.
Can you advise me on how to edit menu.lst:

Re: Comodo Rescue DIsc Lockup while Booting !!

nelz — Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:41 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:41 am

As a wild guess, since I've never used Comodo, try adding noapic to the boot options. Ah, I've just had a look at the disc and they have disabled editing the boot options in isolinux so it looks like you're stuck.

I wouldn't put that much trust in a security product that can't even spell its own name correctly on the boot menu - "COMODO Resuce Disk"

Re: Comodo Rescue DIsc Lockup while Booting !!

crownstar — Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:34 am

Author: crownstar

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:34 am

Attempt running through Xboot / QEMU
TEXT MODE :

oRCU-based detection of stalled CPUs is disabled.
NR_IRQS:512
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Fast TSC calibration failed
TSC: Unable to calibrate against PIT
TSC: using PMTIMER reference calibration
Detected 2511.589 MHz processor.
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency..
502317 BogoMIPS (lpj=2511589)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Performance Events: Broken PMU hardware detected, software events only.
Checking for popad bug...OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 32k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20101013
Enabing APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
....(found apic 0 pin 2) ...
........ failed.
...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ ...

Comodo Rescue DIsc Lockup while Booting !!

crownstar — Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:02 am

Author: crownstar

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 1:02 am

I d/led Comodo Rescue Disc which utilizes SliTaz GNU/Linux for LIve CD
Everytime I reboot with CD in drive it boots up and goes through the process.

then it says something like : Switching to NoHz Mode
then ACPI Exception : AE_NOT_FOUND
then ACPI No dock devices found
then ACPI : PCI Interrupt Link
then complete Total LOCKUP with GREEN SCREEN :

vgaarb : device added PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none

My system is :
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Specification AMD Phenom(tm) 9850 Quad-Core Processor
HP LP2465 (1920x1200[at]59Hz)
2048MB GeForce GT 520 (XFX Pine Group)

Version 4.2.0
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GT 520/PCI/SSE2

possible video collision driver issue ?

Regards,
Crown