Ubuntu :: Installing Maverick From USB: "Unknown Keyword" Then Stuck At "boot:" Prompt?
Oct 12, 2010
Had a couple of problems installing Maverick from USB last night and figured I should share in case someone else finds themselves in the same situation.Hardware: HP 4510s 1.20GHz Duo CPUStart-out OS: Karmic 9.10Downloaded 32-bit ISO of Maverick 10.10Formatted USB drive to FAT32 using Gparted as Startup Disk Creator would not format it for me for some reasonRan Startup Disk Creator on formatted driveRebooted, opted to boot from USBAfter the boot menu but before being given any setup-related options from the Ubuntu installer, I got the following error: Quote:
SYSLINUX copyright info (I forget exact wording)
Unknown keyword in configuration file
boot: _
I'm having problems installing Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook onto my Asus 900. I downloaded the .iso then used the "make startup disc" feature in my Mint 9 desktop machine to make a usb install disk. All appears well at that point. When I try to boot from the usb stick, I get an error message as follows:
I've set up a sandisk usb stick to boot/install 11.04. On two eepc netbooks I get the same issue when I try to boot from the usb: SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian 2008-07-15 EBIOS Copyright 1994-2008 H Peter Anvin Unknown keyword in the configuration file
recently got this message when USB booting:Unknown keyword in configuration file: gfxbootI used to have the "Unknown keyword in configuration file: ui" problem, which was spread throughout the forum. I know people have fixed it by removing the "ui" in the config file. This is what I did in /syslinux/syslinux.cfg
# D-I config version 2.0 include menu.cfg default vesamenu.c32
scons: warning: The build_dir keyword has been deprecated; use the variant_dir keyword instead.
File "/mixxx-1.7.2/SConstruct", line 42, in <module> WE ARE IN: /mixxx-1.7.2/linux_build QT path: /opt/qt4 Loading qt4 tool...
[code]...
ive been scratching my head at this one for days, i turned on the ubuntu virtual machine and checked what apt wanted to pull, and im suspecting that i need to find the source versions of several packages in regard to qt4 and libqt4 and various libqt4 extensions.
To flesh out my *nix capability, I create new identities and give them the functionality that I liked in previous ones. I've added the "open terminal here" script, which I find invaluable. Now I want to change the prompt. This is what the terminal does right now: ITo run a command as administrator (user "root"), use "sudo <command>". See "man sudo_root" for details. elliot@dan:/media/KINGSTON$
- Where do I go to shorten the prompt dramatically? I can't really think of a situation where a shorter prompt isn't better or color matters. - How do I adios the 2 sentences that want to appear every time I open this terminal? I'm aware what sudo does. - Instead, I would like the equivalent of a pwd command. Where would I put that? - How do I get the output of this terminal to be simultaneously saved in a file. I do so much copying and pasting out of these terminals that I'm looking for easier ways to do it.
I upgraded my dell inspiron 6000 from ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 then rebooted and now I am stuck at the grub prompt. I am able to boot from a flash drive and have run the boot script. This laptop did not have a dual boot system on it but it did have windows on it at one time, converted to ubuntu.
I was deleting some space off my C Drive and I believe I may of accidentally deleted Fedora, or some of it! I have a dual boot with Fedora and Windows XP so when I started my desktop up it would load into fedora by default or I could press a key to load XP! (It rhymes!) Now, however, it instantly loads up into "Grub"
And that's it! Run, Or Exit, or anything really, doesn't work! Except Reboot! So I'm a little stuck. It's an old PC and the Windows XP disc is long gone, if I ever had one! I had this thought that perhaps if I reinstall Fedora from a CD it many bring back the old command prompt and let me get back into XP again? Or, is that crazy talk??
F15 from fresh install off LiveCD. I find that on fresh login my ssh agent situation is a bit confused.
I normally ssh-add my keys to the authentication agent, and then ssh to remote hosts without thinking too much about it. Recently, the ssh command has been hanging. Running with -vvv shows it stops at the point it should talk to gnome-keyring:
At that point it hangs and a ctrl-c will kill it.
The ssh-add command cannot connect to the ssh agent:
If I run to that ssh hang again, and this time grep ps for keyring:
I haven't had any gnome-keyring-prompt window appear on my desktop. Checking all workspaces, and using the Gnome 3 Overview screen to visually view open windows, doesn't show it. "kill -9 2101" returns the hung ssh attempt to the prompt immediately. Thinking about it, I don't believe I've had the Gnome 'enter your password to unlock your keyring' prompt once since installing F15.
I noticed that SSH_AUTH_SOCK seems a little confused:
So it seems that gnome-keyring-daemon is using one tmp directory while my shell has been set up with another. If i manually set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable, things start working again:
As I now have to reset SSH_AUTH_SOCK in every terminal I want to use the agent in.
What's the next best step to investigating why the gnome keyring prompt isn't appearing, and how the SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable is getting mismatched with the gnome-keyring-daemon's tmp dir?
I had a problem with my grub (system displayed "unknown filesystem" and then the grub rescue prompt). I then used a livecd of ubuntu 9.04 and ran fsck for a while (closed it in the middle). Grub then worked. But when i select ubuntu 10.04 it goes to the purple screen and stops there. There's some error before loading the purple screen.
I am totally new to Ubuntu but have been tinkering for a week now. Can't say I have figured a thing out, thank God for Google, Linux is just not for the novice user. I guess thats where Windows comes in but I really like the stability of Linux and the fact it is Open Source and free. Wish I was a cool programmer or someone who has worked with the OS for a while, that would make things a lot easier. Where can I study up and get a little more educated about what I am doing? Anyway hopefully someone can answer the driver question. Lastly is there anyway to get Hardware Acceleration if using an Intel i5 system?
When I first installed Ubuntu as a dual-boot (about 18 months ago), I had problems booting to XP, which were eventually solved for me in this thread, which set Windows to boot Ubuntu, rather than the other way round.
I've just had to do a fresh install of Maverick, following a major problem, and I'm back to being unable to boot XP. The error is different from before and I don't want to start guessing at what to do about it and screwing things up still further.
The GRUB menu lists Ubuntu first, then Windows XP. If I choose XP, it takes me to my previous boot menu, with Windows as the first option. However, selecting this gives me
Code: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>system32 toskml.exe
Please re-install a copy of the above file. Windows and Ubuntu are on separate hard drives. XP was fine until I re-installed Ubuntu.
I fresh installed Maverick and had sound for buttons and Rythymbox. After installing flash all sound is gone.I have checked most of the suggested possible causes but have not come up with the reason for this. ALSA info: [URL]
Code: !!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59 !!Script ran on: Mon Oct 18 00:42:07 UTC 2010 !!Linux Distribution !!------------------ Ubuntu 10.10 l DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10" !!DMI Information !!--------------- .....
Mentioned post - [URL]... I was/am also having the same problem that was described above and fixed it with either 'nomodeset' or 'i915.modeset=0', however, once I installed Gnome (part of the "Ultimate Server Guide"), I had one of the following happen...
-On Maverick, it would continue to boot in the console and running commands like startx would result in an error (no screen) -On Lucid, it stopped booting into the server all together (even with the above fixes). Once it boots into the server (about 6-7 seconds later), I'll see a bunch of reddish square artifacts on the screen and the HD activity will stop and the screen will remain on, but nothing will be displayed.
I've searched high and low for help on this and nothing seems to fix the problem. I consider myself very technical but my linux experience is only fair/good. Mostly from Unix experience in college and messing around with Ubuntu Desktop on my netbook.
I have 4 servers with RedHat Enterprise server 32-bit installed. i'm trying to install 64-bit system instead but the hardware has only CD drive (not DVD). When i tried to use external DVD drive and connect it to the USB to install the 64-bit system, it starts ok but then it ask for the media and give me 4 options (Internal CDROM, Internal Harddrive, FTP, NFS). Now i'm stuck with the DVD that system can't read it and i don't have RedHat on CDs and i'm unable to install the 64-bit system.
I've just done a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 and installed Freevo on it from the Medibuntu repositories. After rebooting I get a shell window with no frame in the top-left corner of the screen with the Ubuntu loading screen still taking up the rest of the screen. Typing 'startx' gave a error that there is already a display running on the port.
I was yesterday evening experimenting inserting a script into /boot/grub/grub.cfg. Well I broke grub.cfg and had to try to boot from a grub2 prompt.I have separate /boot and / partitions on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 respectively.Working out the correct syntax for the boot to work was a little complicated, so I thought it would be useful to post the correct procedure here, in case anyone else has the same set up that I do (separate /boot and / partitions)At the grub prompt code:
grub> set prefix=(hd0,1)/grub grub> insmod linux grub> set root=(hd0,2)
Forgive the terseness. I'm frazzled with this issue, perhaps I should have asked earlier. Every weekend for the past 2 months has been an endless cycle of 'repair broken system' off the install disk.
Installed from Ubuntu server 10.04LTS x86_64, + xfce-desktop Here is uname -a Linux ournas 2.6.32-25-server #45-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:06:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux If I add my raid + lvm to the fstab file, the boot stalls, (no error it, just hangs waiting, forever). So that's a not very user friendly to start with.
I've tried the suggestions about UUID in fstab tried using LABEL instead, or even /dev/xxx. Every time it hangs. I've googled this endlessly and not found a solution. So don't ask why... since I seem to have tried every odd suggestion to fix this, I've lost track. There seems to be some consensus that whoever gave us plymouth laid an egg. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but did we need a better graphical boot if it breaks everything else?
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 from a USB drive but every time I reach the option for changing the keyboard layout and press forward, it seems to get stuck. That is, the mouse icon shows that it is loading but nothing ever happening. I even went for a shower, came back and nothing.
alright I have seen some threads on this but they are all old and seem to predate the "wisdom" of the "all" architecture on all the bloody ubuntu packages.
I went to the tomcat website which doesn't even have deb packages. Then I thought to search the ubuntu package repository, nothing seems to have i386 packages for me to install and then get the libs with getlibs. I HAVE to have a 32bit version of tomcat to run orkweb so I can record my phone calls on my voip line.
what would be really great is if anyone has or knows how to build a 64-bit war file for orktrack and orkweb since I have the source code
I started installing fedora 15 from CD on a dell Vista Laptop (2hz 1g ram) but after the logo finished turning white it stays on the blue screen with the bird.I have been trying fedora 13 and xubuntu on this cheap old con of a laptop from pc world and things run smooth (E-system 1.7hz 512RAM vista
I have a laptop running windows 7 with (one hard drive with 2 partitions) and tried to create a dualboot flash win7/linux when I finished I found that I could no longer boot from the hard drive, but get "Unknown Device <avery long hex numer here>" and then the prompt "Grubrescue>"I have learned enough to at least us the "ls" command and it yeilds:(hd0) (hd0,msdos2) (hd0,msdos1) (hd31) (fd0) (fd1)Could someone comment on what this means, and what I can do to get the system booting from the HD
My smallest disc has the Vista loader and nothing else but I cannot select it for Dual Booting in the Ubuntu installation set up only for use as an entire disc which would delete the Vista Loader.
This is what I have:- 1st disc - no operating system much data 2nd Disc - empty except for Windows loader 3rd Disc - no operating system much stuff.
My original plan was to give Ubuntu all of the smaller second disc and I deleted everything ready to give it the entire hard disc. It was only when I went to install Ubuntu it I found the Vista loader lurking on disc 2 and the only option the install Ubuntu set up gave me for disc 2 was to use the entire disc (wiping out Vista loader) otherwise I could have installed Ubunbtu on another disc - which it reported as having no operating system.
If I put Ubuntu on disc 1 would I have a dual boot arrangement given that the installer saw no operating system on that disc ? Is there any (simple) way I can install Ubuntu on disc 2 and not loose the Vista loader? I am installing this version of Ubuntu as it was on the DVD that came with book "Beginning Ubntu Linux" It took me long time to Psych myself up to install it and when I did . . .
I am having trouble with setting up the grub based system on my external hdd. I am trying to have one grub which is going to load operating systems, and livecd if any (usb install). I am stuck at installing Ubuntu 10.10 Minimal version (i don't need gui for linux).Here is what I have done so far:
1. Created 2 primary partitions - windows 7 recovery and data (ntfs) 2. Created an extended partition for linux stuff. 3. Create a logic partition (10MB) for grub (ext2)
I have corrupted or added an invalid sintax in somewhere. Therefore, the OS is not able to install packages. Can you instruct on how to fix this issue. So far, I was trying to install gnokii and after that my OS cannot install software or package updates.I am lost and I worried I have to install again the OS.
Im using Linux Mint Helena and just got myself a new HP Deskjet D1663 printer. However, I followed the instructions on [url] but am getting stuck at Step 5A.
When I put the command.
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make
It gives the error
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make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
I'm also surprised that the [url] website had no option for Linux Mint 8 (Helena) and thus i had to follow instructions and do installations as per Linux Mint 5 or 6. I hope the Step 2 (Install Dependency Packages) has not adversely affected my Linux 8.
I downloaded ubuntu 11.04 and did the usual shizz and it was all going well. I went to get a drink and by the time i got back my computer had completely crashed. I cant move the mouse or anything and it is stuck on 'Installing System'.
Ive restarted my computer (unplug), i had to format the harddrive i was installing it on (luckily it was empty already).
I'm trying to install Sid in Virtualbox using debian-testing-amd64-businesscard.iso : Expert install, Sid mirror, Standard system utilities....So far, so good. After that I want to install a minimum gnome, but this time ( I've done it before with success ) I got stuck :
