PC specification:
PC name: Acer Veriton M6610G from 2010
CPU: Intel Core i5-2500 (stock) (4c/4t)
GPU: GeForce GTX 460 with 1GB of VRAM (stock)
RAM: 8GB DDR3
Boot drive: DVD SATA drive
Booting with “compatibility” setting in the BIOS (legacy boot)
In the Boot Loader menu, there is a “Disable components” option available. Try to blocklist intel_cstate driver from there.
I will try to, but firstly… How do I get into the bootloader menu again? Is it like in Windows by hitting F8 during bootup?
Spacebar or shift depending on hardware but, timing is short and you have to be fast enough to get in.
Now, I need someone to explain to me how to blocklist that. I did try to go into safe mode options and into disabling components, but nothing there.
Yes, I do have boot volume selected
Trying to boot from CD or DVD?
I’m trying to boot off of a DVD (non-UEFI)
Could be the reason (although I don’t know why). Try to boot via USB.
I don’t have a spare USB disk of any kind, but I have a USB DVD drive. I can try that
I would think it needs writeable boot media to mark the driver as skipped, so changing DVD drive type wouldn’t change it
Well then, I’m stuck for now. I don’t have a USB drive at hand as of right now, so I can’t do it.
Not exactly. Browsing the code, the message is shown when the boot volume is not of the “package management” type. The issue seems to be that booting form CD (and, I think, floppy, network, anything the BIOS does not treat as a HD) is different and you get a TAR filesystem that does not have packages or does not recognize them, I don’t really know the details.
It may be different for UEFI, if you have the choice in your firmware.
Just tried it. Indeed, this option is only disabled in BIOS mode. When you’re booting on same hardware from same DVD but in UEFI, it becomes available.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem an option for OP.
