LiveCD Problems

jdblank · Post by **jdblank** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:32 am

I am having some issues runnin the LiveCD on a new computer. It boots up to a user / password linux prompt. Previously when I have run this it seems to have booted all the way to the desktop.

Any ideas?

essup · Post by **essup** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:19 am

It's probably the video graphics card. Generate a new xorg.conf file and start X with startx.

jdblank · Post by **jdblank** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:24 am

How do you get that file on the LiveCD. Also 9 times out of 10 the CD will not boot at all. It just hangs at about 15% progress bar.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:19 am

log in to the console, and type startx
then post your errors.

Eklectick · Post by **Eklectick** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:53 am

The livecd should take you all the way to a graphical desktop.

I used to have problems with the livecd mostly because of two things:

1. Not enought RAM (which perhaps is not your case)
2. Using an old CD player (which I suspect even used in a new computer would not go all the way)

When these problems happened the system would not go all the way and leave you at prompt. Since this is not the way the livecd should work I would not bother on making it boot by hand my suggestion would be to try it on another machine and see if goes all the way (that would take care of you having a "good" livecd ISO). Then troubleshoot the parts of your new computer, perhaps graphics card and then some.

Take a look upon the boot up screen, usually something comes afloat all those rollin lines that points the culprit.

Regards!

jdblank · Post by **jdblank** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:24 am

The problem i think was the video card. I swapped it out with an older card and it now boots. This machine is a brand new Dell 9150 with 2gigs ram and SATA hard drives.

The system now boots occasionally from the CD (seems to get hung sometimes on the USB Probe) but won't install to the harddrive. I think it is having trouble seeing the SATA drives.