Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/03/2016 11:20 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 03/04/16 17:10, John Pilkington wrote: I've had an interesting week with a new 3TB drive and a family box that has been running MS Vista for years. I disconnected the Windows HD 'for safety' and installed kubuntu from the live DVD, with few

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread David Sommerseth
On 03/04/16 17:10, John Pilkington wrote: >> > > I've had an interesting week with a new 3TB drive and a family box that has > been running MS Vista for years. I disconnected the Windows HD 'for safety' > and installed kubuntu from the live DVD, with few problems until I tried a > 'real' boot,

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
On 04/02/2016 10:36 PM, David G.Miller wrote: Yasha Karant writes: An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but this can be changed). Suppose I install such a drive in the target machine

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to > the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the > Ubuntu description of the hardware. > As far as I can tell, all of the

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > > There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to > the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the > Ubuntu description of the hardware. > > As far as I can tell, all of

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-03 Thread John Pilkington
re-sending to list On 03/04/16 06:36, David G.Miller wrote: Yasha Karant writes: An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but this can be changed). Suppose I install such a drive in

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-02 Thread David G . Miller
Yasha Karant writes: > > An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 > Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but > this can be changed). > Suppose I install such a drive in the target machine that has MS Win 10 > on the

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-02 Thread Yasha Karant
An alternative approach -- if it will work. Suppose I purchase a 1 Tbyte external USB drive (typically with a NTFS partition//format, but this can be changed). Suppose I install such a drive in the target machine that has MS Win 10 on the internal hard drive, and then, during the boot (secure

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-02 Thread Chris Schanzle
On 04/02/2016 01:25 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Other than stating that EL 7 will not work, are there any other suggestions? Best option is to remove the drive and put your own in for testing. Alternatively, clone the drive with CloneZilla or if you're more comfortable, "dd | gzip -1" and muck

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-02 Thread Yasha Karant
There were two more postings by me with suffix [2] and then [3] pursuant to the situation with SL7.2 Live on this particular platform, including the Ubuntu description of the hardware. As far as I can tell, all of the important hardware (harddrive and controller, DVD reader/burner, WNIC, NIC,

Re: SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot

2016-04-02 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > SL-72-x86_64-2016-02-03-LiveDVDkde.iso would not boot on a HP Pavilion > Laptop Computer model N5R26UA#ABA, although the list of hardware on the > machine should have been supported by SL 7. Fortunately, one of my

SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot [3]

2016-04-02 Thread Yasha Karant
Just in case this helps, first, the HP description of the hardware, and then, the Ubuntu description (note that the machine is "Ubuntu certified" that seems to be correct in that 64 bit Ubuntu did boot and an Xwindows GUI window manager was operational). Again, any assistance would be most

SL7.2 Live DVDkde would not boot [2]

2016-04-01 Thread Yasha Karant
I just verified that the SL7.2 Live DVDkde DVD I burned does boot on my SL 7.1 HP laptop -- very slow, but it does boot and bring up KDE. During the failed boot process, there was a specific file mentioned to post as a "bug report", rdsosreport.txt . This file also is long, but it appears