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Can't boot live DVD
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Post # 298459
 Can't boot live DVDI am trying to boot the latest 11.0.12 live DVD on an older system and cannot. I believe the issue is my video card. The last message is "Starting KDM Display Manager". The screen goes black, and a single underline character in the top left. It's not flashing. I cannot Ctrl+Alt+F1 (no response).
I have tried several different options from Grub (xdrvr=vesa, noagp, nomodeset, video=1280x1024, etc). Nothing seems to affect it. My video card is an NVidia GT520 PCI card (not PCI Express). Anyone have any other options I can try? Or any way to boot into non-GUI from the live DVD, and run StartX so I can see what's happening? |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:31 pm |
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Post # 298460
Re: Can't boot live DVD Try using
confx xdrvr=vesa as your cheatcodes. The confx cheatcode is required for the xdrvr=vesa cheatcode to work. http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... heat_codes _________________ Asus M4A87TD USB3 AMD 870 Socket AM3 Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe, nVidia TwinView Kingston 2G x 2 1333 DDR3 WD Caviar 500GB x 2 SATA hdd Last edited by uncle mark on Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:51 pm, edited 1 time in total. |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:51 pm |
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Post # 298461
Re: Can't boot live DVD You might think you have an "older system" but the 260.19.21 nvidia driver that's preinstalled with Mepis 11.0 doesn't support your GeForce GT 520. (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... chips.html)
Use both of the cheatcodes xdrvr=vesa and confx to boot the LiveDVD. If you're able to boot and get M11 installed with those cheatcodes you can use sgfxi later on to install a more recent version of the nvidia driver that does support the GT520. |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 3:51 pm |
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Post # 298462
Re: Can't boot live DVD Thanks for the quick replies. Adding the confx cheatcode was the trick I couldn't find. Now able to boot!
As for the system being "older", the motherboard and CPU are roughly 8 years old. I blew out some capacitors on my old AGP video card, so I replaced it with this PCI card with a newer chipset. Hope to get a bit more life out of this system with Mepis on it. Thanks again. |
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| Mon Apr 09, 2012 4:02 pm |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Sat May 01, 2010 12:11 pm Posts: 28 Location: Southeastern U.S. Has thanked: 1 time Have thanks: 1 time
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Post # 298811
Re: Can't boot live DVD Thanks, I was able to fix my issue as well with this solution. My issue was after install, I would get the splash screen then a blank screen with the underscore character. I was resurrecting an old laptop - no cd drive, could not boot off of a usb flash drive or external hard drive. I had to pull the hard drive to another machine, format it and reinstall.
Three hours of google and trying things and I finally hit the right search string to find this post! Thanks again. sealevelPete |
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