[Gllug] boot/install errors ... "PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 ..."

[Chris Hutchison]

Good morning, all

first, let me call myself an idiot to save you the trouble of doing so 
:)  I'm a very happy Linux *user*, but (though not a newbie) by no 
stretch of the imagination a Linux *expert*; and have neither the 
desire nor the intention of going back to Windows.

For almost a year I'd been joyously running Sabayon 3.3 (the best 
distro I've ever used) on my Samsung X11 laptop until a few days ago, 
when I decided to upgrade to 3.5 Loop1 and, at the same time, switch 
from Portage to Entropy as my package manager.  Installing Entropy 
(precisely following instructions at 
http://wiki.sabayonlinux.org/index.php?title=Entropy) seemed to go 
fine; and did 'equo world' to update everything.

Left it overnight (it was clearly going to take some time); and, in the 
morning, found my laptop had frozen. Rebooted ... and was able, after a 
l-o-o-o-o-ng wait, to use the terminal but nothing else (startx gave 
errors). Rebooted again, hit Alt+F1 and read the following:

PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:1.c.2
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000 ... [etc]
intel_rng: FWH not detected
parkbd: no such parport

OK, so drastic measures: I reformatted the whole disk and started from 
scratch.  I tried out a number of Live CD/DVDs ... Sabayon 3.3, 
Sabayon3.5, DreamLinux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu ... even managed, 
in safe mode, to successively (even if not always 100% successfully) 
install the last four of those ... and yet each time those same four 
lines, above.  Interminable googling of each line has got me nowhere 
nearer to figuring out what the problem is and how I might solve it.

I really want to get Sabayon back running on that laptop ... I love it! 
  The irony is that the laptop, when I first acquired it, had XP 
pre-installed and installing Sabayon 3.3 went like a dream ... so why 
not now?

I'd be immensely grateful to anyone of you whose patient and 
compassionate advice could save this old man from tearing out the last 
remaining grey hairs from his frustrated head ...

cheers

Chris

-- 
Chris Hutchison
Richmond upon Thames
Surrey, UK

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