Problem with GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-6 while booting up

manhinli · 04-21-2007, 06:35 AM

I'm trying to partition my brand-new Compaq F503AU laptop, so I downloaded GParted LiveCD 0.3.4-6 and burned it to CD.

I booted it up (trying the auto-config and other video driver options) and it loads pretty quickly and comes up to the lines below and my computer locks up completely:

Code:

PCI: Probing PCI hardware
0000:00:0d.0: cannot adjust BAR0 (not I/O)
0000:00:0d.0: cannot adjust BAR1 (not I/O)

I don't know what the heck the device 0000:00:0d.0 is...

I've only got the power cord plugged in and the laptop is brand-new (nothing messed around inside).
I've tried booting up with an older version of the GParted LiveCD (version 0.3-1) and it boots up just fine.

Specs:
AMD Turion64 2.0GHz
512MB RAM
80GB HDD
nVidia chipsets north: C51MV (with mobile integrated graphics), south: MCP51.

Does anyone else have an idea as to what the problem is?

manhinli

Simon Bridge · 04-21-2007, 11:01 PM

It is the MCP51 chipset and some kernels.

Why not use that older gparted to repartition the drive? Though, you realize that most distro installers are also capable of this task?

Caveat - if you are buying new hardware for linux, you get to choose for linux compatibility from the getgo. NVidia chipsets are not it.

manhinli · 04-21-2007, 11:15 PM

Thanks Simon,

The reason I used the newest version was because I needed to partition a Vista NTFS partition (heard about the ntfsprog problems with Vista NTFS partitions)

GParted LiveCD is also one of my favourite partitioning tools, so maybe I'll need to find some other tool for now.

Well, because of this I'm going to download the few recent versions of the LiveCD and try using them instead.

manhinli

Simon Bridge · 04-22-2007, 03:44 AM

Or just ditch VISTA