SUSE :: Can't Get Live CD To Boot Up
Jan 4, 2010
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?
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Jul 5, 2009
OK... I tried everything i could think of... but i still cannot get my Open SUSE 11.1 to mount my samba share at boot! I still don't understand the 11.1 boot sequence. can NE one help me... tell me what files to give you output from... Ty guys P.S. My shares originate from a Windows Server 2003 RC2 machine, and it's dns server doesn't work correctly... so my mount command is
mount -t //192.168.x.x/files/ /nET/ -o username=linux,password=xxxxxx
please let me know what other info you need... I don't have the internet, so it will be tommorow b4 i see this again!!! Thanks
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Feb 25, 2010
what is the difference between installation process by live CD and dvd....which one is better for installation?
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Nov 5, 2010
I will be migrating SLES-10-SP2 operating system to new hard drives. I will be cloning most of the file systems. I had downloaded openSeSU-11-3-gnome Live CD and burned an ISO image. I want to install new drives in the PC and use the Live CD to create partitions to use in a RAID system. I have seen on the web that the Live CD can be used to install the OS on a machine but I did not see any option that just give the ability to use YAST to partition and create RAID system. Thus my question is how can I use the Live CD just to prepare the disk without installing the OS?
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Dec 3, 2010
I would like to create a Suse 11.3 Live CD with Acronis on it so that I can boot from any computer, use Acronis, and still have some Linux commands available to me. Is this possible? I could part with OpenOffice.org to provide room for Acronis.
I currently have Acronis selectable in my grub menu, and it runs from my hard drive.
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Feb 19, 2010
do a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 in its own partition.
I had it it installed via WUBI and have just deleted it via add/remove programs in windows.
I have Open-suse OS installed which I want to remove,and replace with Ubuntu.
When I boot Ubuntu live from the DVD open g-parted the partitions I want delete are already Mounted so I cannot do the delete.
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Sep 3, 2010
When I run suse 11.3 live from CD I can connect to the Internet, but when I install it I can't get it to connect.
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Dec 28, 2009
i have use SUSE studio to create a live CD image that is an .ISO.
How can i boot that from a flash drive because when i select to boot from flash drive it says there is no boot-able partition.
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May 4, 2010
I have made a persistent live usb of suse 11.2 using a '.iso' file. Now when I boot from the Live usb, the file system appears read only. I want do some modifications in the files.
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Jul 9, 2010
My mac osx hard drive does not boot anymore and I would like to get my important files off before I reformat the hard drive. I have run into a bit of an obstacle -- there seems to be some permissions setting that are barring me from accessing the files I need to. I can see the Machintosh HD and can access some files. How do I change permissions for the entire drive and all it's directories?
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Nov 2, 2010
I downloaded a live KDE-CD and will install from that on hard disk. My box has 4 GB RAM so I understand I need a *-pae kernel ("Physical Address Extension") to be able to use the memory fully.
Can I install the kernel e.g. from [URL] via YAST, or does it need other libraries / software as well and so the system becomes unstable, would anybody know?
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Jul 29, 2010
when I attempt to scan anything with clamav from a terminal I get the following error:
ERROR: Can't create temporary directory /var/lib/clamav/clamav-da584cb3f4ee38529f0460ad6f7dc632
Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 999 or GID 100
Which I take to mean that there are no virus definitions installed. I use the "freshclam" command. Which results in the following error:
ERROR: Can't create temporary directory /var/lib/clamav/clamav-da584cb3f4ee38529f0460ad6f7dc632
Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 999 or GID 100
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May 26, 2011
I'm trying to dual-boot Windows 7 with openSuSE 11.4, i was told that i should install SuSE after windows 7 as it takes care of the boot-loader and automatically detects my windows installation and not vice-versa,
But that is not true in my case.
So i had 2 hard disks one had windows 7 installed and one was empty so i decided that i should get openSuSE 11.4 on the empty hard disk and dual-boot it with windows 7 (that i already had installed). Downloaded the DVD, put it on a USB and installed SuSE on the other hard disk normally, it detected my windows installation on my main hard disk but i didn't touch that, only formatted my other hard disk to ext4
After the installation it booted automatically into SuSE, but now every time on a fresh restart the system boots automatically into windows. Methods i have already tried to resolve this and it didn't work:
1. Booted from the DVD and selected an "Upgrade" not "New Installation" so i could boot again into my SuSE installation which did work, checked my "Boot Loader" options from YaST and checked the "Boot from MBR" option instead of the "Boot from root partition" option, That Did NOT work.
2. Used the same method to Boot into SuSE with the "Upgrade" Option opened up the terminal and tried to install grub manually again using this link
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Nov 9, 2010
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: ==
[code]....
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Dec 30, 2010
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 ...
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Jan 6, 2010
I installed open SUSE to dual boot with XP and have an interesting problem. When my computer rebooted to complete the SUSE install, it would not work at all. I rebooted and the GRUB came up with operating system choices, but when I chose one, absolutely nothing would happen. I tried to reinstall SUSE and nothing happened. I rebooted with the XP cd and nothing happened. I then rebooted with a bood cd I have and it showed the hard drive but could not test it and said it was absent.
After freaking out, I shut the computer all the way off and started it up again. Now it works. It seems that I cannot reboot the system for it to work. I have to turn it all the way off before it will work at all.
Windows runs as well but was a bit shaky to start. I think it's ok now.
Anyone know why a reboot will not restart the system and I have to shut it all the way down? Soft boot, hard boot, doesn't make any difference.
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Nov 18, 2010
I have a SLES-10-SP2 installation with both a /boot and / directories. Is the MBR stored in the /boot or /.
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Aug 10, 2010
I have Suse Ent 10 SP3 that when I reboot the server sometimes it won't... it behaves like this
up and running If I rebooted boots ok so up and running again and If I rebooted again it won't from Hadr Drives
What I can check on my boot/grub?
why sometimes boots OK and sometimes does not
but the way I was thinking it was the HBA attached but I removed them
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Jan 24, 2010
I initially had Red Hat 5 on my pc on my primary 40 hard drive, then i added a second hard drive as a secondary master and went on to install suse on it, now when suse boots it doesn't even give me the option to boot red hat, i did not touch any of the partitions on the red hat hard drive during the suse installation. Is there hope ???
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Aug 1, 2010
I 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]
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May 7, 2010
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.
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May 27, 2010
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.
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Jul 2, 2010
I 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.
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Sep 5, 2010
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.
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Sep 20, 2010
I 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.
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Jan 7, 2011
I'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.
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Feb 1, 2011
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.
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May 22, 2011
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.
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Jun 28, 2011
I 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!
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Feb 22, 2011
I got a new laptop today, i bought it just to use linux. i but the iso on my usb and it works fine on the pc, but when i try it on my new laptop i am getting 'boot error' and must restart and remove usb.
iso: ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso
laptop: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/237739
pretty concerned considering i bought this just for linux
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