I have just installed Zenwalk linux. My only problem (so far) is that now that it is installed it won't boot. After selecting the Zenwalk linux option in lilo, it says
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Loading Zenwalk..................................
Bios check successful
After that it loads up the boot screen and hangs. Is there a command that I can add to the boot line to try to make it so that I can see any errors?
I have Grub Legacy (from PCLOS) in my MBR and I would like to keep it as my primary bootloader. I am trying to install Zenwalk, which uses Lilo, onto another partition. My initial thoughts are not to install Lilo when installing Zenwalk and then installing Grub as a secondary bootloader into the same partition as Zenwalk. Will it work? Is there a better way?
This is the first distro I am installing that doesn't use Grub
the Desktop background image, icons all load when i log in then fade out leaving me with a plain background, no image, no desktop icons and none of the keyboard shortcuts work,
View 2 Replies View RelatedI upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. I worked out all the screen changes etc it hasn't missed a beat until now after a week of usage it freezes during bootup it gets as far as the introductory melody then freezes. It sounds as if it goes into a loop during playing the tune. I'm involved in an anti-malaria project if I can't solve this I've lost research data which will take time to recalculate. If all else fails Ill go back to 10.10. I'm using a different computer for this post driven by Vista
View 4 Replies View RelatedI was trying to restart the X server with sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart, and doing so brought me to a black screen with some messages I don't remember, and left me hanging like that. So I had to do a hard reboot. So now when booting I get to the ubuntu logo on the purple background and it just hangs like that. Doesn't accept keyboard input, I can't alt+d or ctrl+alt+f2. I edited the ubuntu line in the grub menu and removed quiet but that didn't do anything. How do I diagnose this?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can't find it in /dev/video0 or anywhere else
Which means it's there?
I can't find it in lspci
How i might get it to work.
I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid on a Dell laptop. I turn it off at night.Every morning when I turn it back on and open Firefox, I have to wait while the machine is busy/freezes for maybe a minute. This usually happens twice, but sometimes three times. The processor light is on solid when it does this.I've run TOP from the terminal, and it says it's XORG that's running.
This only happens when Firefox is running, and when I first turn on the laptop after it being turned off for a while. Every morning, when I first run Firefox, XORG takes control of the laptop. Not a big deal, but frustrating and worrisome.
Recently I've read an interview at Distrowatch, where a topic was the compatibility of Slackware and Zenwalk packages. My understanding was that now they should both be used in both systems.
As Slackware doesn't feature a complete GNOME distribution, my curiosity was about the ability of Zenwalk's GNOME packages play a role there. If so, the second question is how intrusive those packages are considering Slackware 13.1.
I have a debian system that's freezing in the boot sequence at "Setting system clock".Several sites I looked at recommended changing the init scripts to disallow hardware access to the clock. But, I can't boot! Is there a parameter I can pass to the kernel at boot so that it will skip init scripts?
View 2 Replies View RelatedA friend of mine told me about Ubuntu, so I thought I would try it. I put it on a USB Flash Drive to boot on startup. It brings me to a menu where it tells me to start Ubuntu from the flash drive, Install it on my HD, etc... And if i try to run off USB or Install to HD, it runs through the start-up (runs the files) and then goes to a black screen and stays there. I had it setting for an hour and nothing happened. I have the AMD64 iso. I have also tried the windows installer, and same cenario.
View 9 Replies View RelatedInstalled fc12 on a pentium 4 - 3.2 gig cpu, 2 gig mem, 6 gig root, 2 gig swap and 12 gig home.
Install completed and on reboot it freezes near end of boot process. Install disk is good, install worked on a laptop.
How do I find the cause of the freeze?
I have fedora 13 64 bit installed on my desktop. I have i3-530, 2G ram, wd 500g sata, ide samsumg dvd-rw, asus h55 mb, geforce 9600 low profile.
problem is f13 often almost always freezes at boot up.i.e., after grub, that blue heart hangs on there waiting to be filled up.. but wait forever.
what might be the problem?
It gets stuck on the boot screen with the status bar, or on the loggin screen. The only solution is to reset. After that it is usually fine for the day and will reboot fine, it's a dual boot and my boys use windos on it a couple times a day also, that's why it's getting rebooted so much.
Any possible reasons for this? Or, how can I kill the boot image and get a text based boot screen? I tried Startupmanager, but it doesn't seem to work on 9.10.
When I boot I occasionally get a screen text. Always different. After unplugging everything and waiting for 30minutes I can but again. I think it has to do with my USB-HDDs both which are buffulo external disk drives. what causes this and how to fix it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've just done a clean install of 10.4.1 onto a Compaq Pressario Desktop, which earlier had 8.04, upgraded online to 10.04.1.Repartitioned and installed from an iso disc, checked for Md5sum.All seemed to go as per text book, but when the system starts there is a momentary error message"no suitable mode""no command terminal found"It then proceeds to show the default purple hazy background, but stops there, with no other parts of the normal desktop, icons etc .After about three minutes, it goes black, and if I then hit the enter key, or move the mouse, it displays the log in window and asks for my password.I enter this, and again it reverts to the purple haze.This cycle repeats.I've checked the boot order to boot from the hdd first, so I'm stumped as to what to try next, apart from going through the whole install process again
View 9 Replies View RelatedAfter a hardware freeze, my system boots directly into the Ubuntu screen with 5 dots and hangs. Booting into recovery mode loads the tools menu then freezes before I select anything. The system still boots and runs windows 7 from the same hard disk just fine. I've booted a live cd and run file system check on my ext4 partition and it says it's clean. I can mount the volumes and read the data, just can't get the os to boot.Any suggestions before I backup and reformat?
View 1 Replies View RelatedA few hours ago I was doing some heavy IO between two hdd's on my system and, from what I can tell, the screensaver tried to come on and X locked up. I ssh'd in from another computer and rebooted the system. But dring the boot process when Fedora starts starting service, after setting the hostname it outputs the previous output again and then freezes (see picture below).
I have never seen anything like this and don't even know where to begin to try and fix it. Any help is awesome especially since, as it stands, this computer is essentially useless.
I'm running an encrypted, updated Fedora 11 64bit.
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I'm a bit of a Linux novice but have taken the plunge and got a old Dell machine set up with Fedora 13, it works fine for the most part. If I can get it to boot. Whenever I start it up the tri-color boot bars go across the screen but seem to freeze at various times. Sometimes right as its getting started, other times it will go all the way across but never actually do anything. I can sometimes get it to work if I get into GRUB and try a different kernel version. Is there anyway to pull up a more informative boot screen or some other way of figuring out whats causing the freeze instead of just watching the progress bar?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI love opensuse as it's much snappier than MINT. But my system 11.3 is freezing while booting. I pressed ESC during splash and can see messages on the screen. The last message is ATA3 Exception EMASK. I have uploaded the /var/boot.msg here klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksys - Suse Freeze - CuQAd3dg - Pastebin. There are no other log files!
My system:
Intel Core2duo
Mother board Intel DG31PR
Intel integrated graphics G33
3 GB DDR2 RAM
250 GB SATA2 Hard drive
I have been getting squashfs errors in the live usb created by various means(unetbootin,usbcreater,pendrive linux software).
There seems to be no error in my media or my hw. I have tried both 32 and 64 bit versions and the md5 sums of both match with the hashes given online. I havent yet tested with a compact disk, but i am sure the hw is working fine (it just booted 9.04 from usb..)
I have tried a few boot options [URL] to no avail. Also by turning off the quiet mode during boot, I see that the a few errors are "Unable to read from /dev/sdb" which should be the usb drive itself.
I will try a CD now, but my cd drive is not working. I hope to get a usb drive and boot from it.
I tried to test Ubuntu on my dekstop, an HP Pavilion a6223w with an ATI Radeon HD 2400 but as soon as the live CD reaches the desktop, it hangs, no errors, and from what I can tell it isn't running on any restricted drivers. Is ubuntu not compatible with my PC or something? Here's my full spec's:
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5200+ 2.6GHZ
ECS Nettle2 Mobo with Nvidia nforce 4 chipset and Nvidia 6150SE integrated graphics
3GBs DDR2 5300 RAM @ 667 mhz
500GB Sata HD 7200rpm
ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro PCIe x16
HP Multimedia Keyboard and Logitech USB Optical Mouse
Realtek Onboard HD Audio
I tested it with the latest version of Ubuntu (9.10)
Since I know there's a lot of support threads going, I wouldn't ask unless I was really stumped and couldn't google. I'll get right to it.
10.04 fresh installed fine, working, few reboots, all good. Installed Nvidia 195 drivers. Not so good, still works fine, but framerates not as good as the 190 drivers I'd been using with karmic. So I installed nvidia-glx-190 and nvidia-190-modaliases with the nvidia PPA for jaunty. They didn't appear on the restricted drivers list, I rebooted in the hope they would, and now my boot process is as follows.
Boot, met with a blinking _
Goes blank
Another blinking _
Green static appears momentarily, then very fast the Ubuntu splash appears, the white orbs all turn orange, and there it hangs. The splash itself is in the wrong resolution.
Everything is the same as when it was working except it didn't totally freeze at the end. It responds to nothing except the power button (and sometimes not), I can't access a shell or the grub menu at any stage during the boot process like I usually would, and nothing in the boot log seems out of the ordinary.
What should I do? I'm on a LiveCD desktop, got the harddrive mounted.
Macbook pro 4,1, 2GB ram, Core2duo with Nvidia Geforce 8600GT
Im running desktop dual boot system with two hard drives, one with Windows XP and the other with Ubuntu. Ive had no problems with this until now when I upgraded from Hardy to Lucid. Now I have problems with the system freezing on boot up.
Sometimes it will boot just fine, and at other times it will freeze before the login screen appears. When it does freeze, there are flashing lights on the keyboard and the floppy disk light (yes, its an old computer) is lit constantly. The only thing I can do is switch the computer off and hope it will boot up properly the next time.
When I did the upgrade there were a couple of files where the program asked if I wanted to keep the custom file or overwrite it with the maintainers file and I chose to keep the custom one. I THINK one of them might have been GRUB, but Im not sure.
Has anyone had a similar experience and were you able to cure it? I have seen a thread where people have had the system freeze on them, but Im not sure its QUITE the same thing.
Ive also done a clean install with Lucid on my laptop and have had no problems. The laptop is only running Ubuntu.
Im also wondering if reinstalling Grub on my desktop would solve the problem.
a. If so, would it still show both operating systems?
b. How do you do it?
I come from the French Ubuntu community (ubuntu-fr.org). When I start or reboot my computer, it crashes (freezes) after the grub menu if the external drive is connected and turned on. Subsequently, I have no problem with the external hard drive. The HDD is formated in NTFS, no boot loader, no OS installed on.
View 9 Replies View Relatedi start up the computer, it loads, it arrives to a screen that says the laptops name, and a bar at the bottum. I can interact with this bar, it is blank and has a picture of a little man with a circle. Clicking on this does nothing, another says shutdown and reset, again clicking on it does nothing. I think the error occured when the computer got unplugged while updating.now before we get into all this GRUB and fancy stuff. I am completely new to linux. I installed this using a cd made from an iso image downloaded from the site. I did not use a windows loader. I don't even have windows anymore. I have all my personal information and data on here and would like it to be restored.I googled it and it says to go to recovery mode using GRUB, don't know how and don't know what grub is.:confus ed:
View 3 Replies View RelatedAs my inspirations forced me to download Kde desktop on my Fedora12 with default gnome desktop. It took me whole night to get the big download by -
"Yum install @kde-desktop"
It got installed successfully.
What I did after that was -
"switchdesk kde"
...Voila...and strange thing happened. The gnome remained there but all the kde features started getting included in there like koffice, kopete etc . Now I waited for around 3 hrs. but only lower task bar of kde got installed and that too very unstable. So I thought of logging out and starting a new session with kde but It never got logged in again. It froze at boot time with Fedora logo, damn.
I have two kernels installed and configured at boot, one is 2.6.31.X (default) and the other is 2.6.32.X which I installed to get my BCM4312 wireless activated and all the activity being done on this.
I'm running a generic kernel with Slackware64 13.37 multilib. Every now and then it freezes at the boot time. It probably happens 1 every 5-7 times, so it's not a big problem, but it indicates that something is not right.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am attempting to get Debian+Mate running on my laptop, with no success. I have not yet used Linux, but I do wish to climb out of the Window, and the Live session seems ideal to get a feel for Debian before finally abandoning Windows.
I got the Debian+Mate ISO file from the Debian website, and created a bootable USB stick. (Note : I have done this several times, getting new ISOs, and using Unetbootin, Universal USB Installer, and Linux Live installer; the result is always the same.)
When I boot the USB drive, all appears good at first. I get to the Debian (or Mate?) screen which is a pale jade green with a white squiggle in the middle region, with a panel at the top; this shows at left three options - applications, places, and system; and at right the correct time, a sound symbol,the wifi symbol, and a battery indicator. At the left of the screen in vertical arrangement there are 4 icons labelled computer, users home, install Debian Sid, and trash. On the bottom panel, at left there is a "button" for "click to hide all windows & show desktop", and at right 4 squares for workspaces.
There are also (temporary) windows that inform me that the battery is no good (I run on mains), and that there is no wifi connection established. These windows disappear in a minute or so.
The cursor moves ok. The only actions that it creates are the information drop-down texts that tell me what the headings mean - e.g. no connections when I hover the cursor above the wifi connections symbol.
But whatever I attempt to do - selecting any of the options - nothing happens. Everything except the cursor appears to be dead.
The machine that I am using is an old laptop that I use as a second computer. It has a SIS Mirage 3 graphics engine, which I gather may be a problem. I also tried the same procedure with my fairly modern ASUS laptop (NVidia graphics) with exactly the same results; it seems that NVidia graphics may also be problematic, judging from some posts on the web. I have also tried Debian+Cinnamon, again with the same outcome.
I am running F14. I have usb keyboard and mouse, very cheap but working. There is slight problem with keyboard when I boot machine with keyboard no usb port is working, when I plug it in after system loads it is working fine.
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[0.111940] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[0.111986] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[0.112080] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[1.950117] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[1.950124] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[1.950131] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[1.950136] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686 ehci_hcd
[1.950141] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:10.3
[1.951097] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[1.951104] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1 .....
I set up a dual boot on my laptop a few days ago, between Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.10 (installed from Live CD). All the hardware is working fine.
Anyway, SOMEtimes, during the splash screen , the screen turns off (physically turns off) and the hard disk seems to stop. I cant do anything appart from force it to power down.
Yet sometimes, it boots up fine.
I want Ubuntu to work first time EVERY time.