Not booting with TV card (LE 2005)

I just wiped 10.1 from my hard disk in favor of LE 2005. But with my usual hardware configuration Mandriva 2005 is not booting at all. The boot procedure always stops after

Activating swap partitions    [  OK ]

I have pinpointed the problem to my TV card which ran just fine in 10.1. When I take out this card, Mandriva 2005 is booting without a problem.

What I've tried so far is booting with several kernel parameter, like apm=off, noapic, nolapic and acpi=off without success. And the kernel logs don't seem to show the boot procedure either because the HD is mounted after the swap partition gets activated.

Does anyone have a clue what the problem could be?

This issue seems to have nothing to do with Mandriva at all. I just tried the latest version of Knoppix which has the same problem. I guess that the Twinhan VisionPlus DVB-T card is causing the problem.

Could someone move this topic to the hardware forum please?

I have the same problem but I do not have a tv-card. Any idea what could be causing it? I really need help. Any will be appreciated!

Try disabling apic and local apic in your boot loader.

Didn't help Any other ideas? It seems to sometimes freeze a tad later on in the boot sequence, but it always stops unless I start in Failsafe mode.

I did a fresh install and after that everything worked perfect. I suppose upgrading from an older distro does not work very well.

same issue here with the last mandriva 2005 le.

boot hang after activating the swap partition,
i have a pinnacle pctv sat card in this pc and never been able to make it work, but at least with previous version of mandrake the pc booted.

any help ?
Thanks

I suggest you do a clean install. You can keep your home-partition but and only format the system-one.

it's been a clean install

there isn't any way to bypass this kind of hang ?
i don't like very much the solution of format and reinstall for any issue, is too much windows like.

There certainly is some way to solve it. However, I have no idea. Sorry...

The good news it can be fixed. The actual fault is in the kernel, it happens on Knoppix as well.

the patch can be found here.

it removes one line of code

--- bttv-cards.c.orig   2005-04-04 16:27:34.000000000 +0400
+++ bttv-cards.c        2005-04-04 16:26:41.000000000 +0400
@@ -2718,8 +2718,6 @@ void __devinit bttv_init_card2(struct bt
         }
        btv->pll.pll_current = -1;

-       bttv_reset_audio(btv);
-
        /* tuner configuration (from card list / autodetect / insmod
option) */
        if (UNSET != bttv_tvcards[btv->c.type].tuner_type)
                if(UNSET == btv->tuner_type)

it removes the

bttv_reset_audio(btv);

line.

Ok, anybody have any idea how to patch the kernel after an install?

good, we did a step forward
NOW remain the issue of the pc that doesn't boot so after we can patch the kernel

From what i've been told, you'll need to get a "Live CD" and boot from that, then mount the HDD, and make whatever changes you must to the kernel, re compile and BAM. your all good.

but

i have no idea about anything related to kernel modifications

UBERSKiB, did you resolved ?