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Fails to boot. #48

Closed kram1t closed 2 years ago

kram1t commented 2 years ago

Both the XFCE and MATE iso's fail to boot on a circa 2011 HP box. The following is the output of inxi -M on that machine. I did the checksum steps, it boots fine from straight Debian and LMDE5. So it's a bit of a mystery as to why this machine doesn't like SpiralLinux. inxi -M Machine: Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq dc5800 Small Form Factor v: N/A serial: Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2820h serial: BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: 786F2 v01.59 date: 07/21/2011 I can provide more detailed information on the hardware if needed. -Regards

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

Hi there, sorry for the trouble.

Could you please describe what happens when you try to boot it?

I assume that a machine from that era is probably running in legacy BIOS mode (and not EFI)? On EFI systems it's easier to boot the SpiralLinux live ISO with the Debian Stable kernel instead of the much newer Backports kernel that is default. But it is possible in legacy mode to get it to boot the other kernel, if you'd like to try that.

Thanks a lot.

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

But it is possible in legacy mode to get it to boot the other kernel, if you'd like to try that.

Screenshot from 2022-07-13 09-22-11

You could also try removing the quiet loglevel=0 splash parameters to see where the boot process is failing.

kram1t commented 2 years ago

Yes this hardware doesn't use EFI at all. On XFCE I get an error message that says "[FAILED](red text) Failed to start Light Display Manager.". On the MATE one it just gets to a blinking underscore cursor. I'll test the "quiet loglevel=0..." option a test run in a bit. Thanks.

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

Oh OK, that's really weird. If it got that far in the boot process it would seem more like a video driver thing. Or possibly an issue with the way the USB was flashed, what did you use to write the ISO?

kram1t commented 2 years ago

Sorry for the delay, dealing with some getting old health issues. I think you can close this one out. Unfortunately loosejaw (hostname) has decided to retire for good. Maybe the power supply or cpu. It served me well as a test box for about 5 years.

I used the tools included in LinuxMint to format and write the sticks. The graphics chip was a built in Intel chip. I think that boot option would have been helpful. Autopsy will be held tomorrow. I'm going to remove the HD to see if I can recovery some of my testing notes. Many thanks for your help.

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

Bummer about the hardware failure. If you do manage to revive it please do give SpiralLinux another try and let us know how it went. Thanks!