[Xastir] custom Ubuntu Live CD on maxterm

[Tony Hunt]

Jason,

Just a guess but alot of Live disrtos fail on odd or older hardware these
days due to video driver issues. Can you find the cheat codes for the boot
and force it to use Frame buffers. This is how I get DSL to run on some
older laptops as they dont like the Video driver once the GUI starts. This
typically produces a blank or frozen screen.

Also have a look at APCPI as well as XSETUP options.

I use fb=1024x768 xsetup with DSL quite often on the boot options.
Also I could not get the later versions of Xubuntu to boot unless I disabled
SCSI detection from memory.

Have a look here for some cheat codes.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

You say it reboots and starts again. Which sounds a bit serious. With the
lockups Ive found its very often just a video driver issue and the OS is
actually up and running fine.
When it locks up try Ctrl Alt F1 and see if you get a console. Or just try
Ctrl ALT Delete and see if it starts to shut down.

Tony Hunt VK5AH

Original Message ----- >

> Got a maxterm box, little VIA chipset ITX mobo, 512mb, CF over IDE for
> a hard drive, 12V input, cheap on ebay, with intentions of making it a
> mobile rig.
>
> Installed DSL on a thumb drive, runs no problem.  Installed DSL on new
> 8gb CF card, boots and runs no problem.  Would rather do an install
> than a live boot (DSL is a live type boot), and about that time the
> xubuntu live with install capability pops up here, sounds like just
> the ticket, so off I go.  Check out the USB CDROM from work, set the
> bios to boot from "USB-CDROM", come to a screeching halt.
>
> I can boot a memory check util from the xubuntu cdrom but can't get
> anything else to boot.  Tried 3 different copies of the Xubuntu disk
> (verified burns, checked md5sum after download).  Tried a centOS 5.2
> network install CDROM (use it at work, no problems, so give it a try)
> but still no luck.
>
> In all cases, boot process will start, looks good, but errors out,
> locks up, or resets and starts booting again.
>
> Memory check util says RAM is OK.
>
> Any clues or suggestions? (other than stick with my original plan of
> "get a mac mini")
>
> -- 
> -Jason
> kg4wsv

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