[Newbie] - TC freeze at boot

[micka]

For info, I just tried a live Debian kernel 4.9.0-4-amd64 and keyboard ok

[PDP-8]

Ok, so TC's not debian, but have you tried using any of these boot parameters alone or together temporarily (ie, pressing TAB at the initial boot to change / add them...

nolapic     <--- usually my first light duty option
noapic
noacpi     <----- overkill usually.  Not recommended unless you KNOW you need it.

acpi_os=       <--- yep, nothing after the = sign

acpi_os=\"Linux\"      <----  yep, all that escaping and quotes are in the proper place...

(to see if the acpi_os Linux is accepted, also use "syslog" as a boot parameter too and look at /var/log/message


There are many more generic linux options you can try.  Those above are my most go-to options for cranky hardware.  Just throwing this out in case it helps. 

[PDP-8]

My apologies for some errors here...

I inadvertently dropped the "i" from the acpi lines.  Thus one of the above lines should read:

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acpi_osi=
And, as tested again with TC none of that fancy escaping is needed either if you add a specific osi like:

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acpi_osi=Linux
And if you also use the syslog kernel parameter at boot time, the results can be found in /var/log/messages.  I left off the trailing s in the filename.

Sorry about that - had to clean it up.  I'll direct a generic query about this in a different thread....