I have seen a post simular to my issue as in when booting 5.5 live dvd i get this message appear "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" but the only thing is when putting acpi=off noacpi to turn off acpi it still dont boot and says:memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range
found mcp55 chip
cfg value is 80c1
DETECTED RESTRICTED ROUTING ON MCP55! FLAGGING
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Instead it gives, initially: 'memory for crash kernel not within permissible range' I have 2gb memory on a personal system. Then it gives a screen of commands, or something, followed by: ' kernel panic; not syncing fatal exception
View 10 Replies View RelatedI've recently gained interest in CentOS. So I went to the site to download the OS thought one of the mirrors. I downloaded the i386 version of CentOS 5 LiveCD2.iso and burned it to DVD to install.
When I booted up the disc a screen showing a CentOS background appears then quickly fades to black. After that nothing happens.
Maybe it's the architecture? I'm using a single core AMD64 Athlon.
my jdownloader dosnt start after update. I use openSUSE 11.4Have yesterday chat with jdownloader support. Cant find the config file.I have to rename the config file in config.old
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to work with adding a new hard drive with a default logical volume setup. In order to complete the task, I am instructed to use a live CD to boot the system without mounting the drives using linux rescue. I am using CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso
I have reviewed the centos documentation. When the live CD boots, it starts a count down to an automatic boot. I attempt to invoke the boot options as directed by hitting the tab and adding the words
linux rescue
At the end of the line and hit return to begin the booting process.
Unfortunately, the linux rescue boot option is ignored and the system mounts the hard drive. Additionally, I have checked the boot option several times by hitting the tab a second time and the option is not displayed.
In researching the issue, I inevitably get very similar instructions like:
Quote:The first centos CD or DVD has a rescue mode, just type on the boot screen: linux rescue
I have tried building the minimal & desktop Centos 5 live CDs to no avail.Depending on the build environment, they either do not build at all (Centos 5, i386) or they build but kernel panic when I boot them (Fedora 12).I've tried various tweaks to the provided kickstart files but I have not had any success.It is important to note that I have written some very impressive (according to others) Fedora kickstart builds so I am at a loss why the stock Centos files fail.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?I suspect it has something to do with the livecd-tools or syslinux versions but all of the versions I have tried it with make no difference.
My laptop can't boot from cdrom becouse it is broken and it can't boot from USB becouse it has never been able. Ubuntu 8.10 now run in my laptop withgrub 1.I've just try the following trick.1) I put grub4dos in /boot2) I put iso image in /boot3) I add the follwing entrt in source.list
Code:
# =========== GRUB4GOS ===================================
title == Use grub4dos for the following entries: ==
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i do software (learn keyboard) for blind people. I selected ubuntu and festival and TTS. Please i NEED (mandatory for disabled people) live cd what can be inserted into cdrom and everything is done - automatic boot, settings done, software is on start-up... created own distribution, programed software, done settings, but what kills me is : How i can run AUTOMATIC (without asking, no enter) boot from CD-ROOM. Now CD asking :
- 1) What language want you (here is only czech) - need ENTER (killer for disabled people)
- 2) Boot from CD or hdd - need ENTER (killer no. 2 for disabeld people)
- after 2) I m ok, i can handle it myself, works.
I edited file in isolinux menu.lst etc - I can edit text but i do not know how run defalut choice automaticly. timout 0 does not work I spent a lot of hours reading tutorials grub/isolinux and have nothing ...
is it possible to installed centos onto my flash drive and then run it from within windows without having to install anything on the host? this is because i prefer to program in linux however we only have xp on the university machines so i need to run it from a usb without anything being installed on the host?
View 8 Replies View Relatedbasically a live cd on an external hard drive.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am going to set up Linux on a USB Flash Drive and want to either install to the drive or run a Live Distribution from it since I want to stay with the distro I have on my hard drive.What size or type of drive should I use? I have access to a Corsair Voyager 16GB. Is 16GB enough and would the speed of it be enough?I have seen other drives such as the OCZ Rally 2 which have faster write and read speeds.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to install CentOS 5.4 on a USB Flash Drive to boot from or even a LiveCD? I know with OpenSUSE 11.2 there is a LiveCD version and Ubuntu can be booted this way.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to rebuild the live cd 5.5 of centOS to add some application. I am looking for source code to rebuild live cd 5.5.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to create a live CD of my current CentOS installation. I want it to be almost like a backup, so whenever I want to copy my current installation to another computer I would simply install from my custom live CD.I know this is possible, and I found some resources on the net, but they all seem to only create a minimal version of CentOS; I want to have all the current functionalities available to me at present, including all of my development functionalities, Apache and samba settings, etc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just tried Centos 5.2 Live starting from a 2 GB USB flash drive. Everything seems to run fine, fast, stable - except for that the persistent feature is not working. I created the USB from Windows using the Centos 5.2 LiveCD image and the current version of Live USB Creator (3.7), and declared a 256 MB persistent space.
This persistence feature had worked before with Fedora 11 but the system resulted unstable, kernel panic.... Now Centos has been solid for hours in a row... but the file where persistence should be reflected remains untouched with the initial creation timestamp. When rebooting, every change in config, file created etc gets lost.
I've seen some tools available for taking image backups (amanda, bacula, ...) of the O/S. I have a nas drive and want to back up the the entire disk to it (while running preferrably). Can someone recommend what tool would be best to use (free of course) and hopefully not too complex.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been using the Centos 5.4 live CD to do volume resizing etc for root volume which can't be readily dismounted. I have also been using it to clone systems. It is a really great tool - even offering the same GUI interface I have come to know and love...One added feature which would be great for me would be to package "nx server" and/or "webmin" with it so it can be used to maintain remote and "headless" servers.
That way - when heavy duty maintenance is required on a remote system - the sysadmin (me) could ask the site owner to boot with the live cd - and do the rest remotely. Also it would make maintenance of headless servers easier.I'm not sure whether the live cd is inherited more or less complete from the upstream provider - or whether it is completely re-packaged at centos. I'm also not sure how technically difficult it is to re-package a live cd with extra services.
I have CentOS 5.5 running as a desktop, on Live USB with persistent overlay. It's been working great since January. However yesterday I noticed something strange. Almost all the binary files, including those under /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, and /usr/sbin, have been modified, compared to the originals in squashfs.img (I mounted squashfs.img and did a "diff -r" comparison). The timestamps all remain the same, but the sizes of the binary files have been increased by a typical 1 - 3 KB.
The system has never been updated, other than a few minor package installations via yum. It's running behind a firewall with no services except an SSH server on a non-standard port. Checks on log files etc. didn't find anything suspicious, and chkrootkit turned up nothing.
is it possible to create a live cd or a cd/dvd installer from a running system.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to boot into GParted-Live or Ubuntu-Live off a USB, it just won't happen.
I formatted a USB with files for GParted-Live found here: [URL]
Start the box, F12, boot menu to USB, I get...
SYSLINUX 3.86 2010-04-01 CBIO Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found! boot: _
I attempted this with a bunch of different utilities... [URL]
I have a laptop I don't seldom use, which I want to reformat. I decided the best way to do this was to put Ubuntu on it, since I really just need it for web browsing and a bit of downloading, but I can't seem to do it.
Every time I put in a Ubuntu Live CD, it doesn't load at all (which I assume is an issue with the laptop), so I mounted the ubuntu ISO onto a flash drive, and tried to run it off there.
That worked fine to start with, but I could only get as far as the first menu, I couldn't actually get into the live CD to install it, and I can't think of any reason why.
From some reason I cannot boot from a livecd. I was able to load the vmlinuz and the initrd.img from the cd. The CD even got to "ready.".Nothing happened after this. This is with a liveCD and a liveUSB.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI downloaded the most recent version of Ubuntu (10.04) and burned it to a CD to be used as a live cd. While it attempts to boot during startup, it does not get far. I get a maroon colored screen with a diagram at the bottom that looked like a stick of ram (although it could have been something else, I guess), an equals sign, and then a man in a circle.
After that, it goes to a black screen with a flashing underscore at the top left, until it turns completely black forcing a restart. The monitor has not lost signal.
I am running windows 7 ultimate... I have changed the boot order to CD 1st... I have tried at least 3 times and it always goes on to the Windows logon screen... I have Phoenix bios version 6... I have an Asrock mother board with an AMD Athalon 2600-- 1 gig of DDR ram-- ATI XL vga card... I downloaded the newest Ubuntu release to my desk top... I tried the suggested Burning software (no luck) I tried CDburnerXP (no luck) finally I used the Windows ISO image burning software and (success) the CD was created... But no joy... The PC will not boot to Ubuntu.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently downloaded Ubuntu 10.04.1.The thing is that as i have a VAIO notebook with Nvidia GeForce 310M graphics, the Nouveau driver does not recongize it and so it gives me a black screen (Actually it's more as if the display is off)The thing is that I think that if I disable Plymounth, the computer should boot normally.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've only been checking it out for the last day or so. Got 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat), and I thought I'd boot from live USB cuz in theory I'm led to believe that I would use less RAM being a solid state and all.
So, I tried like 2 programs to create a live USB with persistence, including the one that comes with Ubuntu 10.10 that I found in "System > Administration > Startup Disk Creator". When I boot from the USB it shows the Ubuntu loading screen thingy, and when I press.. anything I think, it displays the error:
(process:365): GLib - WARNING ** get pwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user id (0)
(Don't know if I got all the spacing in that right, but I'm sure you get the gist of it) And it doesn't get any further that that. So I burned the ISO to a DVD and it works perfectly. I want to be able to use the USB though cuz I need my DVD writer for anything that involves CDs or DVDs or the like.
I am trying to repair my wifes Gateway laptop, model# MT3707 with vista on it. Vista won't load, it hangs at crcdisck.sys. I was going to try and fix the problem by booting to my Ubuntu 8.04 live CD but it starts to load and hang just like the windows OS. My live CD has worked just fine on other computers. I don't know alot about computers but have been researching this problem and I find this is a common problem with some of the Windows OS with few solutions. Some think the problem is in the .....crcdisk.sys but I believe the problem is in what loads next, and I have no idea what that is.
My believe the problem isn't in the harddrive because it happen to my live cd which is using the cdrom drive. Could the problem be in the BIOS? Some History. I have a Compaq laptop that has a dual boot Windows Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. I did remove the harddrive from the Gateway and was able to mount the drive using Ubuntu and an USB cable. I saved all the files my wife needed off the Gateway harddrive. This is leading me to believe the problem could be a hardware issue.
I created a live usb ubuntu (11.04) system on my usb drive. I set it to have some persistant space. I set the home directory to be encrypted (this was a mistake).
Anyway, this was about three weeks ago. Since then I have been doing some very important work on it that I cant afford to lose.
Yesterday when I booted up it asked for my password as usual but then came up with a load of errors about not being about to mount various directories. There was a word beging with ice. It finished booting up but there were no menu items or task bars or anything. Just a blank ubuntu background graphic with the cursor. I shut the machine down and tried again. Same problem. Panicing a bit I tried rebooting again. This time it asked me to create a pass phrase (a step I had foolishly skipped when I first set the machine up). I typed in a passphrase It then booted up but again no just an empty background with a cursor but nothing to click on. So I rebooted again. THis time it again asked for a passphrase which I again entered. Same problem. Empty background with nothing on it.
I decided to give it one more try at booting up. This time i get to the screen where you select if you want to install or live boot. If I live boot I get the 11.04 booting splash screen with the four dots underneath and it gets no further. This is the state it is currently in.
I decided to try something different. At the screen where you get to choose between booting from the live usb and installing it I decided to install the system on my laptops hard drive. This went OK, and botting from the laptop hard drive is fine. So the linux image on that usb is OK i thought.
I then put the usb drive into my ubuntu 10.04 desktop (i idn't trust the 11.04 copy I had just installed on my laptop's hard drive). I used the ubuntu disk utility to check the usb filesystem and it comes back as having no errors. I can look at the folders on the usb drive just fine. But obviously cannot access the home directory as it is encrypted.
Anyway, I ran fsck and it comes back with "there are differences between boot sector and its backup." about 500 differences are then displayed. I tried the option for copying the backup to the original but it comes back with "Leaving file system unchanged". I tried this several times. I tried running fsck in automatic mode but it came back with "not auto fixing this"
Now I guessed that I probably cant load up this encrypted file system without a passphrase. But I gave this: a try [URL]
it fails on the line # mount -o bind /dev $D/dev with the message
mount: mount point /media/chroot/dev does not exist
why am I getting that message when I have followed the instructions to the letter?
Anyway, I wondered if perhaps my usb port on my laptop was messed up so i tried booting the usb from my desktop. Same again. 11.04 splash screen and hangs there.
I think the only thing for me to do is trying to find out how to mount the encrypted home folder without the passphrase. Is this possible. That link I posted above seems to just require the username and password which I have.
So I've recently scrapped togehter a computer to use for running openSUSE, and I've downloaded the Live CD, as well as the full DVD. Whenever I turn on the machine with either, I get the DISK BOOT FAILURE error. I've made sure that it boots first from CDROM drive, and verified all of hte wiring, but I can't see to get this to boot up. I've heard its possible it's just an issue that the motherboard doesn't want to run it, but are there other things to do to test it out?
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have just tried to load Ubuntu 11.04 live CD (DVD) onto an IBM M52/MMC/8214. I bought the M52 to replace an older PC, which loaded the DVD without problem, so there is no problem with the DVD. The M52 works fine with Windows. Following is what happens when I try to load the DVD:
...finds Mac address
...finds GUID
...sits on DHCP.../ for a couple of minutes
then displays
...PXE-E53: No boot filename received
followed by
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent
1962: No operating system found.
It then boots into Windows. I'm not entirely new to Linux, having played with Ubuntu for a while, but have never had a problem. Now, I'm stuck!