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On 1/21/2015 1:25 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
Den 2015-01-21 19:16, Linda skrev:
I am trying to boot an old HP
Pavillion a1230 n with an AMD
Alhlon 64
processor and 2 GB RAM from a
live usb with a view to
intstalling
lubuntu on the machine
When I boot it hangs on the
splash screen. I tried booting
with quiet
splash removed and I have a
infinite loop of the following
error message
ata1.00 status: {DRDY}
ata1.00 hard resetting link
configured for
UDMA/33
Device reported
invalid CHS sector 0
EH complete
lost interrupt
exception Emask
0x0 SAct 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
failed command
READ DMA
There were a few other lines
but these seems to give the
gist of what is
going on. Any ideas on how I
can get this to work.
Thanks
Linda
Hi Linda,
I doubled checked the usb and the check5sums I also tried
booting from a Ubuntu 10 DVD and an Ubuntu 6.06 CD The CD
gave you the install or try menu and simply returned to the
menu. Then I downloaded Knoppix to a DVD, a CD and a usb
flash drive. Although the bios gives you the choice to boot
from the cd/dvd drive it only seems to actually boot from a
cd in the drive. It also gives you the choice to boot from
a usb flash drive but it also does not seem to actually
work. Good news is that the newest version of knoppix that
will fit on a cd will boot and run as a live install. So
since the computer has a working Windows XP install I'm
thinking my next step is to try UNetbootin and install from
the hard drive. Should I try for lubuntu with this or should
I switch to a different distribution for the first attempt
since I have had no luck with even old versions of unbuntu
working from a live CD?
Thanks
Linda
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