You mean the firmware of the graphic card? In any case windows vista boots
always without any problem... and also ubuntu hardy (kernel 2.6.24) boot
always without problems

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Andrew Morton
[off-list ref]wrote:

(switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
bugzilla web interface).

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:37:41 -0700 (PDT)
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11734

           Summary: Ramdonly linux don't boot, it hangs at the very first
                    stage of booting with some error related with uvesafb
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.27-6
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Video(Other)
        AssignedTo: drivers_video-other@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
        ReportedBy: diegoocampo8@gmail.com


Latest working kernel version: 2.6.24-xx
Earliest failing kernel version: ----
Distribution: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex
Hardware Environment: Samsung R70 / A009
Software Environment: Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Beta.
Problem Description: First of all: I am not a linux expert so please

don't ask

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me too much technical questions about the problem, but i will try to help

as

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much as i can...
I am not sure if it is related with Ubuntu or with the kernel but the

problems

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take place in the very first stage of booting (maybe with the loading of

the

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kernel??) and I get the following error messages:
"606627 uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d"
"606719 uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and

executable"

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"606814 uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)"
"606905 uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22

Then the loading goes on a little bit until reaching the message:
"Loading hardware drivers ....... " and the laptop freezers at this

point.

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Like i said this is a ramdonly problem,if i restart the computer most

probably

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ubuntu starts, but i think it is very annoying anyway!.

hm.  firmware loader problems, perhaps?