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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
MonkeyJug:
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I figured I'd take the easy way out and swap out with the drive that booted the livecd successfully on my living room pc. SAME RESULT!!!! (invalid loop location) AAAAHHHHHH!!!! :hissy:
So it has to be my mobo chipset (amd 785G)...right?
AND...it does lock up the keyboard upon the error. I can't use the keyboard and I'm forced to reboot. So...I can't attempt any console commands.
**edit** switching out to a PS keyboard allows the keyboard to function after the error.
attached are the same log files as before, but these were taken after hooking up the DVD drive that worked previously on another PC....and a PS2 keyboard attached:
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i have the exact same problem about an invalid loop location.
my dvd drive is a pioneer 112d (via ide) and i have the asus m4n68t-m le v2 motherboard, which has the NVIDIA Geforce 7025/nForce 630a chipset. all other iso-builds of groovymame installed without a hitch.
did you ever get a solution dmarcum99?
bitbytebit:
I might have a solution, updating genkernel and building with that when I create the ISO. Also there's a 3.0.3 stable version out. It might be a week or so, I need to test it, build and upload. Uploading is a pain currently, internet connection upload speed, so I'm waiting till I make sure I've done enough to have a chance of fixing it to be worth the upload time.
for now installing the older ISO and emerge groovymame with the newer ebuild as root. That will get the newest mame and be the same mostly as the new ISO.
dmarcum99:
sounds awesome bitbytebit!! I appreciate your efforts...really! Not many people go out of their way to supoort like you and Calamity do for the hobby.
FWIW, I tried to install on another PC and move the HD to my cab to see if it would boot, but no dice. I don't get the invalid loop location error, but I get another error. That's not really important right now though. I'm glad it sounds like you think it may be fixed soon.
Failbot:
Hi,
I've been playing with the Groovy Arcade Linux for a few days now and think it's exactly what I'm after for my current project. Thanks for the effort putting this distro together!
I can however confirm the problems with the kernel's disk detection on some chipsets that has already been noted previously.
When it dumps out to the BusyBox shell there are no /dev/sd? or /dev/sr? devices present, certainly looks like the kernel is missing drivers/modules for these particular disk controllers.
Using SATA or IDE drives does not make a difference, but I *think* I remember getting it to work with a USB DVD drive.
I have had success with ATI/AMD Radeon graphics and Intel onboard graphics (but haven't tried 15 KHz modes on Intel), but no success with any nVidia graphics card.
With nVidia, groovymame runs, switches display mode, but then crashes out with a segmentation fault.
Here is my results for a few machines I've tried:
Groovy Arcade Linux 1.536 (32 or 64bit):
AMD785G chipset (onboard Radeon HD3200): Disks NOT detected.
nVidia 630a chipset (onboard Geforce 7025): Disks NOT detected.
Intel 915GM chipset (discrete Geforce Go 7300): Disks detected. Mame segfaults.
Intel NM10 chipset (onboard Intel GMA3150): Disks detected. Mare runs fine.
Groovy Arcade Linux 1.530 (64bit):
AMD785G chipset (onboard Radeon HD3200): Disks detected. Mame runs fine.
nVidia 630a chipset (onboard Geforce 7025): Disks detected. Mame segfaults.
nVidia 630a chipset (discrete Geforce 7900GT): Disks detected. Mame segfaults.
nVidia 630a chipset (discrete Radeon HD5450): Disks detected. Mame runs fine.
If there's any other info I can provide you to help solving this issue, let me know. I look forward to trying the new version when it's ready, but in the meantime v1.530 will keep me busy for a while.
Thanks again for your hard work, I'll find something to donate . :)
bitbytebit:
I've uploaded a new *test* 32bit ISO image which has the 3.0.2 kernel and newer genkernel used to create it. So it hopefully fixes the booting issues, please test and let me know if this works. It's this ISO that is the one to test:
LiveCD32-Full-1.565-774c0a9.iso