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FourFlats
Hi all .. I burned AntiX 17 Live cd, booted and installed to HD, Couldn’t boot
after (missing os) I don’t think GRUB got installed. This is all quite lengthy,
so please see attachment. Thanks!- This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by FourFlats.
Anonymous
Begin troubleshooting by ruling out Dell-U2417HJ as the problem.
1) unplug monitor from wall power, wait 5 minutes, replug then attempt to boot.
(hopefully will restore the monitor to “factory defaults”; may have become jangled during a power surge, or sag)2) attempt to boot the Acer M3800 with a different monitor.
Next, with the PC unplugged… I would “clean the contacts” ~~ pull the RAM, the graphics card (if PC contains a discrete GPU) and clean the card edge contacts by scuffing with with a pencil eraser, then alcohol swap. Also examine/clean video cable connectors.
If no joy, next I would rule out BIOS quirkiness, by updating the M3800’s “BIOS: American Megatrends v: P01-A0 date: 03/19/2009”
https://www.wimsbios.com/biosupdates/acer/ASPIREM3800
latest revision is “P01-A2”
anticapitalista
Also, try booting with the vga=839 cheat removed at grub boot menu.
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rokytnji
My advice is a lot simpler since your Acer Desktop has Intel Graphics from 2009. Which is supported By AntiX for years. If not a hardware break . I consider this operator error. I own a Acer Single core Pentium 4 D/A150? < Not sure of model number as I type this out >
I am posting your inxi output below
inxi -Fx System: Host: fourflats Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 6.3.0 Desktop: Fluxbox 1.3.5 Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 Machine: Device: desktop System: Acer product: Aspire M3800 serial: PTSC50X0049290384B2701 Mobo: Acer model: EG43M serial: N/A BIOS: American Megatrends v: P01-A0 date: 03/19/2009 CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 6600 (-MCP-) arch: Conroe rev.6 cache: 4096 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9603 clock speeds: max: 2403 MHz 1: 2136 MHz 2: 1603 MHz Graphics: Card: Intel 4 Series Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: intel Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel G45/G43 version: 2.1 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes Audio: Card Intel 82801JI (ICH10 Family) HD Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp Network: Card-1: Intel 82567V-2 Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: c880 bus-ID: 00:19.0 IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:25:11:39:75:87 Card-2: Ralink RT5372 Wireless Adapter driver: rt2800usb v: 2.3.0 usb-ID: 002-004 IF: wlx14358b0c2863 state: N/A mac: N/A Drives: HDD Total Size: 2656.0GB (15.6% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD6400AAKS size: 640.1GB ID-2: USB /dev/sdg model: STORE_N_GO size: 15.5GB ID-3: USB /dev/sdh model: FA_GoFlex_Desk size: 2000.4GB Partition: ID-1: / size: 142G used: 3.1G (3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 ID-2: /home size: 146G used: 314M (1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 ID-3: swap-1 size: 9.06GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 183 Uptime: 53 min Memory: 1026.1/3919.8MB Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0 Client: Shell (sudo) inxi: 2.3.40.Your assorted outputs below
dmesg | tail -400 <snip> 53.817170] FAT-fs (sdg1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck. <snip> 161.281193] [UFW BLOCK] IN=wlx14358b0c2863 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:10:9f:a9:db:33:e0:08:00 SRC=192.168.2.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=36 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=1 ID=0 DF PROTO=2I only inserted what I thought relevent to my answer. File system corruption . That is serious.
If me. I would start over.
I’d do a md5sum check since you did not mention you have done this of your downloaded AntiX iso first.I mentioned intel graphics support because I am posting from
harry@biker:~ $ inxi -Fxz System: Host: biker Kernel: 4.10.1-antix.1-686-smp-pae i686 bits: 32 gcc: 4.9.3 Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 Distro: antiX-15-V_386-full Killah P 30 June 2015 Machine: Device: laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E4310 v: 0001 serial: N/A Mobo: Dell model: 0T6M8G v: A01 serial: N/A BIOS: Dell v: A03 date: 07/08/2010 Battery BAT0: charge: 48.8 Wh 113.0% condition: 43.2/48.8 Wh (88%) model: Samsung SDI DELL RM6618A status: Full CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5 M 520 (-HT-MCP-) arch: Nehalem rev.5 cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9576 clock speeds: max: 2400 MHz 1: 1333 MHz 2: 1199 MHz 3: 1466 MHz 4: 2400 MHz Graphics: Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1366x768@60.00hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 version: 2.1 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Render: Yes Audio: Card Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.1-antix.1-686-smp-pae Network: Card-1: Intel 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k port: 6040 bus-ID: 00:19.0 IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 02:00.0 IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> Drives: HDD Total Size: 60.0GB (50.3% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 60.0GB Partition: ID-1: / size: 7.6G used: 4.9G (68%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda2 ID-2: /home size: 48G used: 24G (53%) fs: ext3 dev: /dev/sda1 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 184 Uptime: 26 min Memory: 399.8/8026.6MB Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.43So. Operator error or hardware broken. One of those 2. I am leaning more towards operator error. Especially when you say grub acted like it failed to install. But it did anyways. Last time womeone mentioned that in a thread I participated in. The Iso they dwonloaded was corrupt.
Which is why I use
harry@biker:~ $ wget -c https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/antix-linux/Final/antiX-17/antiX-17_x64-full.iso --2017-12-08 08:21:49-- https://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/antix-linux/Final/antiX-17/antiX-17_x64-full.iso Resolving iweb.dl.sourceforge.net (iweb.dl.sourceforge.net)... 192.175.120.182, 2607:f748:10:12::5f:2 Connecting to iweb.dl.sourceforge.net (iweb.dl.sourceforge.net)|192.175.120.182|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 817889280 (780M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘antiX-17_x64-full.iso’ antiX-17_x64-full.iso 0%[ ] 4.88M 318KB/s eta 39m 56antiX-17_x64-full.iso 0%[ ] 4.90M 320KB/s eta 39m antiX-17_x64-full.iso 0%[ ] 4.93M 319KB/s eta 39m 56antiX-17_x64-full.is 0%[ ] 4.96M 318KB/s eta 39m 56antiX-17_x64-full.is 0%[ ] 4.98M 320KB/s eta 39m 53antiX-17_x64-full.iso 0%[ ] 7.26M 339KB/s eta 39m 10swhich saves my bacon when downloading anything from the net. My ISP is one of the worst on the forum. Good Luck.
Also. When you said you booted up your AntiX CD. I take it you meant a older version of AntiX? Since 17 does not fit on a cd till you move down to base or core versions of isos. I think your problem is a very simple fix. But requires some effort because you gotta start over.
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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsI’ll try and cover as much as I can at the moment. I unplugged the DELL monitor and left it for awhile.
No, I didn’t check the iso’s md5sum.
Size – I believe I wrote the iso to a DVD.
It wasn’t me just rebooting the machine that may have caused file corruption. When I would see the message about
“entering power saving mode” the screen would go black and machine would reboot.I have a 19″ Acer P186H and I’ll try that with the AntiX-17. (Later)
I tried to get the bios file, but the download doesn’t start when I click to download from Acer.
Acer Bios
Not sure if I mentioned this? I swapped out the machine’s CPU. I wanted
to use virtualisation, but the M3800’s processor didn’t have support for that.
I replaced it with this E6600. Details below.
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Type CPU / Microprocessor
Market segment Desktop
Family Intel Pentium Dual-Core
Model number: E6600
CPU part numbers: AT80571PH0832ML is an OEM/tray CPU
BX80571E6600 / BXC80571E6600 are boxed CPU
Spec Code SLGUG
Frequency 3067 MHz
Bus speed 1066 MHz
Package 775-land Flip Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA8)
Socket Socket 775 / LGA775 / T
Microarchitecture Core
Processor core Wolfdale-3M
Data width 64 bit
The number of cores 2
The number of threads 2
Level 1 cache size 2 x 32 KB
Level 2 cache size 2 MB
============================I’ll download the iso again and I’ll check the md5sum.
(wget)I don’t think I’ll have time this weekend to open the
case.Thanks You .. All.
All for now.
rokytnji
Ok. Just going by what I read.
I installed AntiX 17 after burning the iso to cd and booting
I rebooted the with the Live cd and reinstalled a second time
No, I didn’t check the iso’s md5sum.
OK. They are in the read me txt file . But I’ll save ya some time.
c0be8980027356d064fb2a4f8275a42f antiX-17_x64-full.iso c0be8980027356d064fb2a4f8275a42f antiX-17_x64-full.isoThat shows when I checked my download
harry@biker:~ $ cd Isos harry@biker:~/Isos $ md5sum antiX-17_x64-full.iso c0be8980027356d064fb2a4f8275a42f antiX-17_x64-full.isoBeing a team member and hardware tester in the past. I never took my downloads for granted . It saved a lot of trouble shooting steps later on when testing alpha and beta versions of AntiX. Sounds to me like you downloaded iso is corrupted so far.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by rokytnji.
Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
I'm not outa place. I'm from outer space.Linux Registered User # 475019
How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsHi all,
I couldn’t get to my acer monitor, so I used my NEC MultiSync 70GX (2.
It looks like skidoo was right and the problem seems to be a hardware related.
I pulled two old Parallel port cards (pci) and I checked all cables. The system
has built-in graphics. I checked all connections. I pulled the fan and heatsink.
I vacuumed out the box and cleaned up everything. Cleaned and added new paste and
re-seated the cpu. After that I pulled the ram (4Gb – 2×2) and cleaned the contacts
and plugged it back in. I looked over the motherboard and didn’t see any swelled
capacitors. I unplugged every connection I could find and plugged them back in.The thing is still rebooting on its own. The installation difficulties was due to
rebooting / hardware issues.I just downloaded the newer bios file and will try and make a bootable something and see
if I can add the bios file.======================
BIOS: Date: 2010/03/02
Version: P01.A2
Vendor: Acer
Size: 2.5 MB
======================FF…
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by FourFlats.
Hi all,
The thing is still rebooting on its own. The installation difficulties was due to
rebooting / hardware issues.I just downloaded the newer bios file and will try and make a bootable something and see
if I can add the bios file.======================
BIOS: Date: 2010/03/02
Version: P01.A2
Vendor: Acer
Size: 2.5 MB
======================FF…
UPDATE: The Acer M3800 Box …
I flashed the bios and on reboot the fan was louder and turning at 3900/4000 rpm.
The thing didn’t reboot again until almost 42 hours later. I restarted it after
the first shutdown and it was 26 hours before it shutdown again. No over heating
according to the temps in system settings.I had reinstalled AntiX-17 (checked md5) and knew the problems had nothing to do with it.
I only paid around $120.00 for the old box, so I’m not sure what I am going to do with it at
this point. I mean the problem could be one of so many different things. Power supply, cpu,
motherboard and so on.Thanks for the help guys!
- This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by FourFlats.
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