topic title: M11 Live CD and Installation woes
Posts: 7
EricW
Joined: 06 Oct 2010
#1
I'm running Ver. 8.5 on an old HP NX9010 laptop with an external monitor. Yesterday I just d/l Jayaben Desai with Transmission, burned a CD (with xfburn - the original burning software failed after update) and attempted to boot the live CD.

Got a weird little box in the upper left corner, which seems to be some sort of error console. Two upper columns labeled data and prog and a lower region with:

err 8
ip 4594 | 10.7

The rest of the screen shows the usual GRUB boot list, but nothing works - I get a blank screen with all variations of keystrokes or waiting.

Does anyone else see this?

Attempted to boot with the RC version and had a similar screen and no start.

It's really time to upgrade my version of AntiX (which is running stable - the browser is very outdated.)

Thanks to anyone with ideas - I'm stuck for now.

EricW
anticapitalista
Posts: 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
Did you check that the iso was ok (md5sum)? Also check the cd. Burn slow (x4).
If that is ok, check cd drive.

You could try booting from the hard drive if you have a spare partition.
Posts: 7
EricW
Joined: 06 Oct 2010
#3
Thanks Anti!

Update -

The ISO md5sum is 23787518bc78bace953d1245fc58d8d5 which appears to be correct.

The CD works, with a few cheatcodes, in another even older laptop ( looks good BTW.) When booting it mentions missing parameter in the first item (too fast to quite read it.)

I'll try another CD burned on an external drive...

The error appears to be happening before the first screen. Might be the first part of GRUB somehow conflicts?

EricW
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#4
EricW,

In your 8.5 can you run in terminal as user:

inxi -F

so we can see your specs, also on my older boxes, sometimes have to go into the bios and set the cd to boot first..

could also try the boot cheats one at a time

agp=off
noapci

cheers,
ohh
Posts: 7
EricW
Joined: 06 Oct 2010
#5
Same weird box in the upper left corner - burned another cd on another drive from the 686 ISO, downloaded the base version, tried that too.

All give the exact same strange result.

Here's my system info. The trouble appears to be in the GIMP before the initial menu, so cheatcodes are not an option.

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System:    Host ship Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5-686-update 27 July 2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-UP-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2) bmips 5052.72 clocked at 2525.146 MHz 
Graphics:  Card ATI Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1280x960@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card ALi M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device driver ALI 5451 at port 1000 BusID: 00:06.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 National Semiconductor DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller driver natsemi at port 2400 BusID: 00:12.0
           Card-2 Intersil Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset driver hostap_pci BusID: 00:09.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (22.4% used) 1: /dev/sda IC25N040ATCS04 40.0GB 
Partition: ID:/ size: 3.9G used: 2.2G (60%) fs: ext3 ID:/home size: 7.4G used: 6.2G (89%) fs: ext3 
           ID:swap-1 size: 0.54GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes 92 Uptime 16 min Memory 137.9/374.0MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.12
HP NX9210 original BIOS version (I think no more updates available)

I kinda suspect a kernel issue, but I dunno. Anyone else getting this? It's a long, lonely way to go if I'm the only one with this issue. Anyone with ideas where to start?

EricW
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#6
Eric. Since CD's boot OK on older other gear. I would suspect faulty cdrom drive on the laptop that won't boot.

Hardware problem (maybe?)

I would test this out by trying a Slitaz or Puppy Iso CD and see if it boots to desktop to rule out cdrom hardware glitch.
Also some of my gear won't boot cdrw. But cdr boots fine.


Edit: I have had great success also booting AntiX 11 off of usb in conjunction with a Plop boot floppy to getusb boot on a bios that does not support usb boot also.