What Is Wrong With My Computer Specs ?
The reason I am posting this in the newbie area is I have never encountered a problem such as this before, I am not very knowledgeable about compatible chip-sets or what ever is wrong in this case. The new computer I just purchased will not boot up any Linux distros live cd. It sees the first splash screen where you can choose the live cd options, but when it starts loading it does a quick exit and sits there with the cursor blinking, there seems to be no error message except that it is exiting. I have tried to boot up at least 20 or more Linux Live CD's, the CD's are good because I have tried them all on two other computers with success with all of them.
The best I can do at this point would be to post my specs and hope someone recognizes a major compatibility problem. I wish I could supply an error message, I will work on that some more because I know it would be essential. In the mean time my specs are: Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03) obnascar |
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how did you get that lspci output pls? 2) what boot codes did you try? eg since you have 20 distros....you are likely to have knoppix and try.......knoppix 2.....boot to runlevel 2 meaning no graphical system but boring old 2d. 3) It appears you have only onboard stuff....can you confirm pls? 4) It appears you have no detection of ethernet.....do you have a wireless device not being recognised by the kernel by any chance? .......Please name your computer make and model.....and in case its the wireless that is causing the crash....name the wireless. a link to the motherboard site would be helpful.....I assume you have searched the HCL? good luck |
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Starting graphics mode failed, dumping you into command line only Linux. I'm still surprised you were able to post the lspci output you posted. That's easy to get without GUI, but transferring it to somewhere from which you could post it is less easy without GUI. If you can do that, I would have thought you already know to look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for the info on why starting graphics mode failed. So maybe my guess at what you mean by "exit" is all wrong. |
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Bios: American Megatrends v02.61 1985-2009 Code:
Processor: Intel Pentium E5400 / 2.7 GHz thank you for responding aus9 |
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thank you johnsfine for you reply also, best regards, obnascar |
I would suggest the possibility of an issue with graphics drivers, Linux itself might still be loading, have you tried hitting (I believe) Control + Alt + F3 and seeing if you can drop to a command line interface? If so you might be able to see the occurring error in /var/log/messages. That would be my guess in this situation, you could try loading explicitly into text mode, some distributions allow you to enter the option for isolinux "linux text" what will just load up a CLI only, this would likely not show the error message if it is graphics related at all since it won't be touching graphical drivers. Just a suggestion I am tossing out there...
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What Is Wrong With My Computer Specs ?
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I was able to produce one image of an error message on one of the distro's live cd. I hope this one can help.
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One more image of another live cd trying to load. The error message is in the middle of the screen "unexpected exit with status 0x0009"
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the model of your motherboard is "P5QL-VM EPU"? (there is no "P5QL-M" on http://www.asus.com/)
anyway, your hardware is "too recent" to have any issue: if there is one, probably it's from a fabrication problem (for what warranty exists :P) - try reseting your BIOS/SETUP to default values (if this doesn't work, maybe a BIOS update may do it... but it is far more dangerous to do) |
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From what I can see, that error does not appear Fatal, it looks like it is still attempting to load after it too, so I don't think that is your issue, it might mean there is an issue, but I don't think it is what is causing the system to appear to crash.
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I tried disabling the wireless device and all other usb devices with no different results than before.
EDIT: any chance a bios upgrade might help ?? |
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[EDIT]Perhaps the default settings in the BIOS are the root of your problem. See if fiddling with them (within reason of course) helps [/EDIT] |
Did you do as I suggested in my first response and see if you can get it to boot to console/terminal? Or if it errors when trying to load a console, you might get to see more information that way. If you can enter an isolinux option do "linux text" or "linux expert".
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you might also try booting with "nomodeset" or "xdriver=vesa" (withoutthe quotes)
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