Hardware :: Shuttle Xpc Won't Run Livecd's?
Mar 18, 2010
This shuttle xpc (model#SA76G2) using Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9ghz dual core, 1Gb ram, won't boot properly from live cd's. Tried Puppy, Antix, Knoppix 5.1 & 6.0, Lenny 5.03. All exhibit slight differences...Puppy can't find the system and drops to command line, Antix and Lenny, after booting go to a crazy video mode, hence no display and knoppix just shows two penguins. These cd's work just fine on other machines.
It's not my computer, so I'm not going to fret about this. But I would like to know what the heck is going on.
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Apr 23, 2010
I've had display problems with Fedora 12. My monitor could display 1600*1200 in Fedora 7, but I'm having a struggle with F12. I can get 1600x1200 using the nouveau driver but after lots of experimentation, I'm left with:
1. The top line of pixels seems to be repeated 8 - 10 times, shifting the display content downwards so that the bottom few lines of the display content disappear. The mouse cursor can reach the whole of the display but "points to" and "clicks on" part of the display content which appears a few pixels below it.
2. A few pixels of the display content are cropped from the left hand edge of the screen.
Things I've tried:
1. Tried **many** different modelines in xorg.conf and , this is the one I'm using at the moment: ModeLine "1600x1200@50" 162.0 1600 1616 1736 2160 1200 1201 1206 1248 +hsync +vsync I don't know whether all the parameters match up, the monitor flickers a bit at logon so I guess they don't (e.g. the monitor display reckons it's on a 60Hz refresh). At least the display is basically usable though.
2. Tried nouveau, nvidia, nv and vesa drivers - nouveau is the only one which gives 1600x1200.
3. Tried xvidtune, but it complains "Unable to query monitor info" and exits.
System Hardware:
System: Shuttle SN41G2V2/ Athlon XP 3000/ 1GB - "VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)" Monitor: Dell 2007FP (1600x1200 native resolution) connected via standard VGA connection - has previously worked at 1600x1200 using Fedora 7
System Software Fedora 12 (2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686.PAE); installed where F7 used to be (and Mandrake before that!), but /home lives on a separate partition and has not been changed.
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Jun 19, 2010
Have used Linux for a long time, but never set up a system myself. It is my intention to get a barebones system from Shuttle called "SG41J1 PLUS" and run Linux on it.
This has the following H/W components:
- Intel Core2 Quad
- Chipset Intel G41 + ICH7
- VGA Intel X4500
- Sound IDT 92HD89C
- Ethernet Marvell 88E8057
Can I assume that the Intel ICH7 would be supported and the graphics too ?
For the Ethernet controller I obtained drivers (source code) from the manufacturer, so I hope this should be fine.
For the sound chip I don't know yet whether I could get drivers. Are there any ? I had a look at the ALSA project's site but could not see exactly this sound chip mentioned.
Should I expect any problem if I wanted to run a 64-bit version of Linux on that machine ?
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Nov 10, 2010
I just got my new Shuttle SG41J1 v2. Everything works fine under 10.10 except audio. I can hear sound at the headphone-jack on the frontpanel but the jack on the rear isn't working. I tried different models in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (3stack, 5stack, test), nothing helped. All channels in alsamixer are unmuted and the sliders turned up. In the output of alsa-info.sh I can see Nodes for all jacks (Speaker, Mic and Line-In at Ext-Rear for example) but alsamixer and all other mixer-applications I tried shows only Master, PCM, Front Mic, Line, Mic and Aux (all in the Playback section). Also I found nothing in /usr/ share/doc/ alsa-base/driver/HD-Audio-Models.txt.gz about my Codec "IDT ID 76c1".
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Apr 3, 2010
I had a shuttle box quad core amd running Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit. Anyway it was always losing it's bios settings so I presumed the battery was flat. Since the shuttle had always been a little twitchy apic had to be disabled etc to get thing to boot into Linux. I decided to move the install over to another Shuttle XPC SG31G2 V1 model which was running Windows 7 without any problems.
Got it running surprisingly easy as I expected a full re-install jobby but I quickly reconfigured it and it was loading into X properly. However the bios settings also get reset on power off. All seems very strange to me. Any ideas bar booting of a live cd and see if the same happens???
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Apr 20, 2010
I'm on 5.4 with a Shuttle X50 and am having a lot of trouble getting sound working on this box. In Gnome the card is detected properly and nothing is muted, but no sound comes out of the speakers when I do the test. Checked in the bios and the audio is enabled so I'm stumped... heres some info for reference:
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Mar 5, 2009
I know that this question has been asked many times across many forums and last night, I finally figured out how to do it from Windows. I'll post the procedure for an existing Linux distro later. "Is it possible to run a LiveCD iso off of the hard drive?" Yes it is. Here's how:
1. Download the Fedora LiveCD from here.
2. An .iso file is basically like an archive; except that it's made for CDs. Extract the entire file into a vfat, ext3, or ext2 partition. I use WinRAR (for Windows) as my extractor. IMPORTANT: This method won't work if you extract the file into a NTFS partition.
3. Install UNetbootin and run it. Select "Fedora" as the distribution and "10 Net_Install" as the version. At the bottom of the dialogue screen, under type, select "Hard Drive" and next to that, select your partition (C:, D:, etc.).
4. Press OK. Unetbootin will install a basic GRUB bootloader. When it promts you to restart, press Cancel. You don't want to restart... yet...
5. Browse to your Windows partition (most likely C. You should see a folder called "unetin". Browse into that folder and you'll see a file called "menu". Open it with Notepad.
6. Paste this text at the bottom of the file:
title Fedora LiveCD
root (hdx,x) "NOTE: Replace hdx,x with your partition holding the extracted iso. Most likely, it'll be either (hd0,0), (hd0,1), or (hd0,2)"
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7. Restart and select "Unetbootin" when Windows shows your Bootloader. Wait 3 seconds and press Esc.
8. Select "Fedora LiveCD" and press enter. You should boot into the LiveCD. It might be slow, so be patient and it'll come up.
EDIT: COMMON MISTAKES AND ERRORS:
1. Grub Error 15: File not found: It's likely that you made a typo in the menu file or that you didn't set your /dev/xxx (hdx,x) parameters correctly. Try changing those around and it should work.
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Jun 11, 2011
I have Ubuntu installed on my pc and it's just the way I like it setup. I want to make a LiveCD.
There was a tutorial (sorry can't remember URL) for remastersys but it was obviously obsolete as the lines to add to the repository were no longer live.
What is the absolute easiest way to create a LiveCD, hopefully something that is GUI based.
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Jan 10, 2010
Other distro's have the ability to remaster (or make), a live cd of their install, is there an easy way to do this with Opensuse?
My thoughts are primarily with a fresh install complete with all updates, then make a live cd. In the event of a disaster a simple install from the live cd would get an updated version back again without the headache of installing updates, codecs etc...
Ubuntu has remastersys, PcLinuxOs can make Live cd's by a default app but i've not seen such things for Opensuse versions >= 11.1.
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May 31, 2011
I seem to have a knack for having systems built that OpenSuse doesn't like. I remembered this afternoon why I gave up on 11.x - the 11.4 LiveCD doesn't like my setup, at least in terms of booting into a GUI. I have uploaded two photos I took of the bootup screen, in case the provide information that might be helpful. I am sorry about the shakiness, I have CP and the the 2nd one is harder to read because of that, but it says something about "amd radeon hd 6800 series (chip ID 0x6738) requires KMS" among other things.
Even though I'm really rusty in CLI, I'm happy to give it a go, to get this working, if possible. The two screenshots are [URL]
FWIW, the 11.4 LiveCD also really didn't like the NVIDIA GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M in my old Acer Aspire 5520 either.
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Apr 4, 2010
I have a Ubuntu, Kubuntu 9.10 live CD which I know work because I have installed on my other computer, (HP Pavillion ze2000), and also linux mint 8 and openSUSE 11.2, which also run/work. However when I put them in my current computer and restart, the computer simply ignores them and carries on with vista. I have been testing out the live CD's on VirtualBox and on my second computer and they look pretty nifty But the computer just ignores them as if they weren't there.
Specification :
Hp Pavillion dv6 notebook PC
Windows Vista service pack 2
AMD athlon X2 Dual Core
2.00 GB RAM
32 bit
X86-based PC
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Apr 29, 2010
I'm trying to run Ubuntu off the Livecd but when I start my imac it ignores the cd in the superdrive. Any suggestions?
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Jul 14, 2010
I'm using kubuntu 9.04 live cd to see how it works but cannot connect to the internet. I've put in the proper WPA passkey, although it calles it password, ame thing i hope, and added the ip address along with everything else and still cannot connect. Btw, this is on an Acer Aspire 5610 laptop.
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Jan 24, 2011
I can change the bootup screens, but is it possible to unsquash the filesystem on a Mac?
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Apr 7, 2011
how do you install Ubuntu over SSH with a liveCD? OpenSuse allow you to do this (well, they used to - maybe it was browser based).
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Sep 22, 2010
I tried the rescue mode of the install DVD. It doesn't have any package management initialized. What I want to do is have a LiveCD environment where I can install an RPM package into that live running system (not persistently ... but pretending so in RAM).
Ubuntu can do this. If I choose "Try Ubuntu" in the boot menu selection, I get a live system that has the DEB package manager ready to go. It can install more packages that depend on packages already installed.
I just want the same but having Fedora. If 16 GB of RAM is not enough, I can get more.
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Jan 18, 2010
What is the best/easiest way to create a Linux Live CD? Specifically, I'd like to create a Live CD that is very minimal in size, runs XFCE4, Wireshark, and has hardware drivers that make it compatible with a wide variety of laptops, ethernet drivers, and 802.11 drivers.
It needs to have an up-to-date kernel and it needs to be relatively easy to update as newer kernels become available.By minimal in size, I mean would like to get my features in to less than 300MB. I only need 1 language (English) supported and 1 keyboard layout. I'm personally partial to Ubuntu.
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Jan 13, 2011
Ok after stumbling around for 2 days in the dark i have both a working vm and live cd, well almost working. I cant access the internet.
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Dec 18, 2010
I have tried "lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2145" and found it fantastic for my simple use of computer. I hardly can understand anything on the README.html file. I just wondered if it is possible to install the LiveCD's OP system to a partition on my hard-disk-drive.
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Mar 9, 2011
I've read that you can connect to the internet after booting from a Linux LiveCD. How does this work? For example, if you use dialup, and modem+connection sw are configured, you just connect as usual? I'm conceptually fuzzy on this--since the sw for dialup lives on the hard drive, you can access the hard drive as usual? And if you have doc or text files on a USB flash drive, you can access the flash drive and open+edit the docs using a text editor included on the LiveCD?
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May 6, 2011
is there a livecd with grub2?I need an bootable .iso that starts latest version of grub2.(debian and ubuntu livecd use some custom format, they don't have the grub2 menu)
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Dec 12, 2010
When i pop in the live cd to boot from it gets stuck on the loading screen the one that looks like this:Ubuntu. . . . .The dots move until like 2 mins in and then they get stuck and nothing happens i let it sit for like 30 mins.The reason im using the cd is i already have installed ubuntu but then i installed windows xp on another partition and so im trying to get the grub back using the livecd.
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Mar 20, 2010
Recently I got a new computer:
Intel core 2 duo E7500 chipset
Gigabyte s-series GA-G41M-Es2l
Intel G41 express chipset.
I inserted the ubuntu 9.10 disc in and I clicked on livecd option and few seconds latter I got a trace back report. Is it that my motherboard doesn't support ubuntu or what is wrong. Why can't I boot into livecd?
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Feb 13, 2009
Im trying to set up a CentOS 5.1 LiveCD on my PXE/tftp server and am having problems. I can currently successfully install CentOS 5.1 using my PXE server but can not get it to load the Live CD.
I tried following this How To but it doesnt cover a Live CD just a rescue mode.
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/Rescue_PXE My entry is /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default for the live cd is this:label centoslive kernel centoslive/vmlinuz0 append ks=http://ip.to.liveCD.contents/CentOS/5.1/ks/live initrd=centoslive/initrd0.img ramdisk_size=8192 selinux=0 text
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Aug 12, 2010
In my CentOS Bible, written by Timothy and Christopher it refers to a one button that you can install CentOS with one button from the LiveCD, or from CentOS running from the CD and install to the hard drive? I pressed everything and nada, as most everything does not function it seems. What am I missing that may go along with preparing these Dell 2650's?
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Feb 24, 2011
Been a ubuntu user for almost a year. I've decided to branch out and install fedora on my other laptop.
Currently I'm trying to create a bootable usb using this guide:[url]
Using rpm to check for livecd-tools tells me it's not installed.
I tried to get it through apt-get install livecd-tools. But that didn't find anything.
I tried installing yum and to obtain it but to no avail. Same error as apt, "Not available".
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Apr 4, 2011
How do you localize openSUSE-11.4-KDE-LiveCD on a pendrive? I have installed bundle-lang-common-hu, bundle-lang-kde-hu, kde4-l10n-hu and yast2-trans-hu and changed locale in both Configure Desktop and YaST but the menus are only half-translated.
openSUSE installed from the DVD on a hard disk is properly translated. What makes the difference?
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May 4, 2010
I formatted my old laptop's HDD completely to install openSUSE with a clean slate plus it couldn't handle XP anymore. I burnt a liveCD and NET CD but none of them boot (not at all) and since its my first experience with Linux I am puzzled. I get this message that operating system could not found (well there is none) and it suppose to boot from the CD I triple checked the boot priority I burnt extra CD's but nothing seem to work.
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Mar 17, 2010
Fedora 12
2.6.32.9-70.fc12.i686
I downloaded the gparted iso and burnt it to a CD.
gparted-live-0.5.2-1
This GParted Live was created by:
create-gparted-live -l en -b u -e e -d sid -m http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian -s http://free.nchc.org.tw/debian-security -g http://free.nchc.org.tw/drbl-core -n 2.6.32-3 -i 0.5.2-1
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I put the disk in and reboot. Nothing happens. I just get a flashing cursor in the top left hand corner. I then have to switch of the power button to get it to reboot. I have done this a number of time and the results are the same.
Can anyone tell me how to boot from the gparted liveCD?
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Mar 5, 2011
Basically this morning, I decided to format my Win7 as it was getting really slow and I did so with no problems. I also have a Linux Mint OS on dual boot. Since I was springcleaning my windows partition, I decided it was a good idea to do the same to my linux partition.
I downloaded the latest version of Linux Mint (Julia) and burned the LiveCD. Now here is where the problem lies, when I restarted Windows and chose to boot from the LiveCD, it didn't work. No joke. There was just a little underscore blinking for a long time before it went back to GRUB which prompted me to select an OS to boot.
However, when I went into my old Linux Mint OS and restarted the machine, the LiveCD worked... to a certain extent. It would load and look as though it was ready to install Linux Mint 10 but the moment it got to the option screen, the whole screen turned into a checkered and jumbled mess.
At this point I thought it was the LiveCD or the .iso file. I had an Ubuntu LiveUSB for recovery purposes and I tried that. The exact same thing happened. Can't boot the LiveUSB if I restarted from Windows, but works when I reboot from Linux. BUT still the same checkered screen that doesnt respond.
Did a bit of googling and reckoned it might be something wrong with my GRUB. Did some updating and didnt make a difference.
Then I tried the Super Grub Disk and STUPIDLY uninstalled GRUB. (Note that booting to SGD had the exact same problem - can't be done if I rebooted from Windows). Now I can't access my Linux Mint 9 cos the the bootup screen (mbr) only has Windows 7 as an option.
Remember me mentioning that I can't boot from any CD/USB/recovery CD when I reboot from Windows? And now that I can't access Linux, there's no way for me to do any form of recovery!
I've tried using the command prompt utility at startup recovery but to no avail.
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