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.
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
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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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?
I have an old office PC that I need to shred the drive on. Problem is, I have no monitor for it. I do have the 9.10 LiveCD however. Can anyone walk me through how to do a format without actually seeing it? And to have it shutdown after?
View 9 Replies View RelatedAs with almost every time I try to simultaneously install two operating systems, I have incurred the wrath of GRUB. It's probably more to do with my laptop's terrible hard drive, but here's my problem: I had a 9.10 install and a swap space on this hard drive, then I used GParted from the BT live CD to resize shrink the Ubuntu partition to make space for a BT install. I booted into Ubuntu just to make sure it was working fine. it was. Then I went back in to the BT live CD to install it on the free space.
When I booted up after install, the GRUB screen had changed (obviously), but now only the BT installation (which appeared as Ubuntu 8.10 for some reason) would boot, The previous Ubuntu installs had stopped working, and now came up with "file missing" or "file not found" (cant remember). I tried fsck -v /dev/hda1 (where my 9.10 installation was), and it didn't seem to have any errors. What's wrong with my computer (or GRUB)?
I've asked this in another forum, but I'm not sure I phrased it very well. I have a desktop and a "server" at the house. The "server" is sitting across the room, with no keyboard or mouse. If I were to boot the server from a LiveCD, could I then get in with SSH and kick off the setup remotely? I'm getting "Connection refused" when trying to ssh in, so I'm guessing that the service is probably not turned on.
I checked into Reconstructor, and I think that may be the way to go, if I can figure out what I need to do. I'm thinking all I need to do is install an SSH key and start the service, then I can get into it from my desktop and proceed with the install.
Is this possible to do? Or is there a better way? I know I could lug the keyboard, mouse and monitor over to the other machine to do it, but that would mean that I couldn't do anything on my desktop (since that's where the keyboard, etc. would come from).
Is skype available and usable from the live CD/DVD? Before meddling on the hard drive with anything, I'd like to see if my mom's aging PC is up to Skype at all, worth upgrading, or needs completely replaced. She has Win98SE on it, I think it's some breed of Athlon but can't remember and it's to far away for me to look at it right now...
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View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to boot off a USB LiveCD of Ubuntu 9.10 in order to save some data off a botched UNR install. However when I try to boot off said USB drive, I get this error:
Code:
process 2425: arguments to dbus_pending_call_set_notify() were incorrect, assertion "pending != NULL" failed in file dbus-pending-call.c line 596 The error repeats constantly until I turn off the netbook (EeePC 1008HA).
I've tested the USB drive using the "Check disk" option in the boot menu, and it comes up clean.
I just downloaded the Release candidate, for 10.04, and as I was testing it on VirtualBox, I notice that the LiveCD option, (or Test ), is missing? Should I re-download, or it's an error from VBox?
I don't have unlimited bandwith, I was lucky enough to download 2 ISO's yesterday, cause there was nobody where I live, so I could use the WiFi all I could. What do you think, bad ISO, or problem with VBox?
Last week I very eagerly downloaded Ubuntu 10.04 and burnt it to a CD. I just want to try out the new version using the Live-CD. I tried it on both my home desktop and my work notebook. I was able to get the initial screen where I can select the language and keyboard, etc.. But when I tried to start the program I ended up with a blank screen one both computers.
So I just thought, I will wait until they get these problems fixed then I will download and burn a new cd. Question, have their been fixes to the ISO file since it first was released that would fix these kind of problem? How does one know if the ISO file has been upgraded; is there something after the 10.04.01 or something like that?
I am trying to do a fresh install on the HDD that had 9.10, a 80GB ext4 drive. All that shows up is my other HDD, a 160 GB ext3 drive. Why is this happening? "ls /dev/|grep sd" only returns sda and sda1. My 80GB drive has a few partitions, one for swap for instance.
Edit for clarification:
2 harddrives in 9.10:
80 GB HDD /dev/sda
1 ext4 partition that has ubuntu installed (/dev/sda1)
1 extended partition (/dev/sda2) for swap (/dev/sda5)
160 GB HDD /dev/sdb
1 ext3 partition /dev/sdb1
Only the 160GB HDD is detected when using the liveCD (as /dev/sda and /dev/sda1). I can mount it just fine, but my 80GB HDD is not detected. After ejecting, I can boot my 80GB HDD just fine...
I'm rolling my own version of the LiveCD (directly, not using the apt-based tools) and I'm trying to lock it down. I'm doing things like setting up iptables to only allow network activity with tor and whatnot, but I can't figure out how to lockout root. I've set the password for root and commented everything out of sudoers, but when I boot from the resulting iso, the sudoers file suddenly has "%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" appended to the end, which tells me that somewhere is in the boot process the file is modified to have that.How can I disable this process? I really want to lock down the system so that root is impossible to reach.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOne year ago I decided to give it a try with Ubuntu. I used the 9.04 Live CD, but it didn't perform as expected - it gave randomly errors on boot up, the interface was disappearing and reappearing, applications closed themselves randomly and in the end it usually froze and I had to do the magic SysRQ or hard restart. I installed it then through Wubi - and it was somewhat more stable. It behaved sometimes excellent all the time until I restart, but sometimes it just crashed with an error when I boot up. When 10.04 came out, I wanted to try it out, so I burned the CD.
It was the same as the 9.04 when using the Live CD and when installing it using Wubi it just fails on 25%. I don't have any problems with Windows 7 and another distribution like Knoppix (6.2) runs just fine and smooth from the Live CD. No problems what-so-ever. I haven't did any clean installation on my hard drive because I don't know if this would persist and leave me with a not working system. I still would like to address the problem from a Wubi installation or the Live CD before going for a full installation.
Here is my machine:
AMD Sempron 3300+ @2.0GHz
NVidia GeForce 7300LE 384MB
1 GB RAM DDR1 (2x512MB)
A31G PCCHIPS Mobo
I have a Windows / Ubuntu dual boot system and I recently upgraded my system to 10.04 from the package manager. I ran into what seem to be not an unusual issue with the new version of GRUB2 being installed hosing up the MBR. When I try to boot now I get a message stating: the symbol 'grub_puts_' not found.
There are a few posts and solutions out there about the issue... but the most promising ones, using the Ubuntu 10.04 liveCD don't work for me. The GRUB changes don't seem to stick. It's almost like I'm doing all the grub command line work in a virtual system that gets wiped out as soon as I reboot.
For reference, here is one of the posts I've been working w/, some links in there seemed very promising, but again nothing seem to stick for me from the liveCD:[URL]..Should I be using some rescue disk of some sort? Or is there a way to boot directly to a command line from the Ubuntu CD menu?
I-m running the livecd, I open a terminal, it appears as user
ubuntu@ubuntu
I want to change to my Ubuntu user
me@me-desktop
so that i can upgrade a package that i broke via dpkg. how can I switch to my user?
I am currently triple booting between Windows, Mac, and Ubuntu. I was having problems booting earlier and somehow Grub2 got replaced by Grub 1.5 command line. I can't boot into Ubuntu anymore, I can only boot into a LiveCD, but I can't figure out how to re-install Grub2.. I tried using Terminal to install Grub, but it still did 1.5 command line. I did sudo apt-install grub and everything. Nothing worked..
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If this is a common issue and already another thread topic I couldn't find it.
Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 64bit, HP ZV6000
I've boon doing a lot of reading on booting problems in 10.04 and it seems as though there are a lot of booting issues after the upgrade or, in my case, out of the blue. I've only been using Ubuntu for about 6 months now, dual-booting my WinXP box, and for the most part haven't had any issues. I upgraded to 10.04 via the update manager (or whatever it was that said: there's a new version of Ubuntu out there, please update) sometime in May and never had a problem (although I did choose a wrong setting for the dual boot but that just meant I couldn't get into WinXP).
Out of the blue one day, after being on the laptop for a few hours I decided to shut down and go outside. I did the same normal shutdown I always do and shut the computer down. I came back to it a couple of hours later and it wouldn't boot. The HP splash screen pops up (as normal) giving me the opportunity to go into the BIOS if needed and then the GRUB 1.98 loader shows the available versions: Ubuntu kernel, ubuntu kernel and Win partition. If I choose either of the two Ubuntu kernel's my screen goes blank and I get a flashing curser in the top left corner. And that's it. I've let it sit for an hour and nothing.
I tried to boot from my LiveCD (9.10) but the computer will not boot from the LiveCD. I took out the HDD and slid it into a USB connector and plugged it into another computer and only the WinXP partition shows. I can't even look into the non-OS partition I created specifically for circumstances like these. I tried the "GRUB> find /boot/grub/grub.conf" command from the GRUB menu and nothing. It comes back with a "find is not a valid command" notice. I have some music and videos on there I'd really rather not lose. Unfortunately, the laptop is too old to boot from a USB (BIOS isn't being updated anymore) and I can't think of any other options. As far as I know, my only other option is to format the drive and start over.
I did a search through the forums but couldn't find another post specific to mine so I hope I'm not repeating something old when I ask this...I'm currently using ubuntu livecd to recover files from a dead windows machine. And when I say dead I mean windows itself won't boot, after several attempts at troubleshooting. All hardware is tested and passed. BIOS is up to date. Ubuntu itself opens up and operates just fine, accessing all drives and peripherals.
My problem is this, I want to recover my music and photos from the hard drive before I restore and re-install Windows. Easy enough. But the hundreds of gigs of music and photos that were on my HD are missing when I file browse to them in ubuntu.Every other file on the HD is there, in tact, from windows system files to downloaded movies and tv shows. The "Music" and "Photos" folders on my drive are there, and inside each of them is only a few files from thousands that should be there.
Is there a function I am unaware of in ubuntu to show all contents of the drive? Surely a windows boot error wouldn't selectively delete only my music and photos...?
I recently added the eth1394 module to the kernel using the modprobe command. Unfortunately the computer crashed almost instantly and now crashes on every boot.Is there any way I can remove this module using a LiveCD?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS in a dual boot environment with XP. Except that I have two hard drives: One with Ubuntu and XP and one with just XP. The MBR on the XP-only drive has an entry named "Linux" which points to the grub loader for the split drive. I tried to reinstall windows on its partition on the split drive, but the install process hung and I've never figured out how to make it finish. I didn't use that partition for this entire episode. Yesterday I booted into Ubuntu and tried to log in, but immediately after entering username and password I was presented with an error message (full screen, blue background, red "ok" button). I don't remember exactly what the wordage was but it had something to do with a hard drive error.
I thought I was experiencing hard drive failure, but I hit the reset button and successfully booted into the windows-only installation. I didn't think the problem was anything more than a random error. Today I tried to boot into Ubuntu, but immediately after the splash screen I was greeted with BusyBox v1..1..3 with an (initramfs) prompt. I restarted and tried Ubuntu again and immediately I encountered the grub> prompt (no grub bootloader, no splash screen). Confused about why the prompts had changed I decided to boot into Windows, but at the welcome screen an error dialog from lsass.exe informed me of an unrecoverable error in the registry: the semi-famous "registry could not read in, write out, or flush." Next I tried the live CD.
Using the live CD I could access the contents of both of my windows partitions, but not my Ubuntu partition. Navigating to "FileSystem" using the LiveCD only yields the directories created for the LiveCD session. I tried again to boot into windows and it worked, so I'm hoping the message from lsass.exe was just a random hiccup. Right now I'm pretty much only concerned with getting the Ubuntu partition backed up, and then performing a fresh install. Content from the windows installations is fully backed up. The fact that using a LiveCD gives me access to the windows partition on the split drive makes me certain that the drive has not physically died.
Using "fdisk -l" produces no output, and "dmesg" gives some errors at the end of the output:
[310.832172] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
[341.900881] VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda5.
[887.351098] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[899.495785] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[899.495795] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[911.636348] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[911.636359] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[1032.849498] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[1044.999986] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[1044.999996] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[1057.130682] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[1057.130693] Buffer I/O error on device fd0, logical block 0
[1146.185858] attempt to access beyond end of device
[1146.185872] sda2: rw=0, want=4, limit=2
[1146.185878] EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
My attempts to use the grub> prompt to reinstall grub return an error (error 15, I think?) when I try "find /boot/grub/stage1".
So Im running windows, but I want to switch back to ubuntu. I have a spare hard drive for my laptop, so this is a basic one partition on one drive setup. The problem I'm having is the cd or dvd will not boot. I keep getting the grub error, rescue mode. I've read many of the other posts, but they are dual/triple boot, multiple drives, upgrades etc. I don't need any of that nonsense, just a simple explanation as to why the many copies of 10.10, and one of 10.4 give me the same error.
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