[Xastir] custom Ubuntu Live CD on maxterm

[Jason KG4WSV]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Tony Hunt <wavetel at internode.on.net> wrote:

> Just a guess but alot of Live disrtos fail on odd or older hardware these
> days due to video driver issues.

Could be, but the splash screen with the animated progress bar on
xubuntu displays fine.

and DSL runs fine.

> Also I could not get the later versions of Xubuntu to boot unless I disabled
> SCSI detection from memory.

hmm, I think I saw an "ATA" error once, maybe this is related...

> 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.

Nope, I told xubuntu to do an install from the boot menu (did I
mention I get the graphical boot menu, then get the splash screen
w/animated progress bar?) and it locked - no activity on the CDROM
when it stopped.

> When it locks up try Ctrl Alt F1 and see if you get a console.

Did that, nothing there.

> Or just try Ctrl ALT Delete and see if it starts to shut down.

Nope, just a reset.

Thanks for the pointers, will try some of these.

-Jason
kg4wsv