antiX-17_x64-full freezes on install

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I have the iso on CD, chksum indicates good download. I’m trying to create a bootable USB drive with 256 gig usb drive for my Asus Intel® Core™ i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz × 4 with 8gig ram. There are 2 graphics chips, one intel one Nvidia 820m. I run the CD for a live install and antix freezes right after all the boot screens are complete. I get a mouse arrow that is movable for about 1 minute and then it freezes. I have to hard shutdown. Funny thing is antiX installs under Virtualbox no problem. I cannot create a bootable usb while running Virtualbox because the usb is not detected when I use the create usb drive tool. I have formated the usb to ext4 and is seen by Ubuntu. I have disabled secure boot in bios also with no luck…any help would be appreciated.
Mark

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[Moderator BobC]

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You should go to a terminal and run

inxi -Fxz

Post the output of that here. Also, to be clearer, maybe list the steps you did as a list in order, as its hard to understand what you created and how you are trying to boot.

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Did you try the F4 options ,maybe choosing failsafe with the live-cd ?

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caprea wrote:

Did you try the F4 options ,maybe choosing failsafe with the live-cd ?

Yes I tried the failsafe with the same result. Frozen screen all black.

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BobC wrote:

You should go to a terminal and run

inxi -Fxz

Post the output of that here. Also, to be clearer, maybe list the steps you did as a list in order, as its hard to understand what you created and how you are trying to boot.

I can’t get to a terminal to run the command in antiX. In Ubuntu, that command is not recognized.
The steps I performed for a live install are…
1)Burned the iso to DVD.
2) inserted 256G thumb drive
3)Set bios to boot DVD 1st.
4)Turn off secure boot
5)save and exit bios
6)AntiX begins boot sequence
7) Selected Custom from antiX boot menu. (tried all the other options too).
8)select timezone
9)select US 105 keyboard
10)select default for other options.
11)AntiX goes through boot text screens (some error messages that go by too fast, I’ll record and post)
12) mouse appears on screen with all black background. Sometimes the mouse pointer is visible when it freezes, sometimes it disappears and freezes.

Here is the inxi -Fxz output from Virtualbox…

System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 6.3.0
Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017
Machine: Device: virtualbox System: innotek product: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A
Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: N/A
BIOS: innotek v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
Battery BAT0: charge: 49.0 Wh 98.0% condition: 50.0/50.0 Wh (100%)
model: innotek 1 status: Discharging
CPU: Single core Intel Core i5-5200U (-UP-) arch: Broadwell rev.4 cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3) bmips: 4391 speed: 2194 MHz (max)
Graphics: Card: InnoTek Systemberatung VirtualBox Graphics Adapter bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 800×600@59.96hz
OpenGL: renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 256 bits)
version: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Render: Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801AA AC’97 Audio Controller
driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: d100 d200 bus-ID: 00:05.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.5-antix.3-amd64-smp
Network: Card: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI port: d010 bus-ID: 00:03.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 08:00:27:e7:b2:c3
WAN IP: 171.191.55.45
IF: eth0 ip-v4: 10.0.2.15 ip-v6-link: fe80::a00:27ff:fee7:b2c3
Drives: HDD Total Size: 8.6GB (46.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: VBOX_HARDDISK size: 8.6GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 6.8G used: 2.8G (43%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.07GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: None detected – is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 131 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 128.3/2003.0MB
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 6.3.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.4.121) inxi: 2.3.40

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In Uefi-mode you maybe have to disable fast-boot also besides secure-boot.

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I think it sounds like it’s booting the operating system, but not able to bring up X-windows.

What kind of graphics did you say it has? I have a Dell XPS I7 with combined nVidia/Intel graphics which runs that same AntiX version. Maybe give us a link to the motherboard so we can see the specs.

Did you try safe video mode? Give that a try…

So, you didn’t actually get to where you run the install, you are not able to boot completely from the DVD?

PS: try Caprea’s suggestion first, if it still has trouble try mine.

Under Ubuntu from a terminal to get the pci info that would say what graphics you have you could run
lspci -vnn

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BobC wrote:

I think it sounds like it’s booting the operating system, but not able to bring up X-windows.

What kind of graphics did you say it has? I have a Dell XPS I7 with combined nVidia/Intel graphics which runs that same AntiX version. Maybe give us a link to the motherboard so we can see the specs.

Did you try safe video mode? Give that a try…

So, you didn’t actually get to where you run the install, you are not able to boot completely from the DVD?

PS: try Caprea’s suggestion first, if it still has trouble try mine.

Under Ubuntu from a terminal to get the pci info that would say what graphics you have you could run
lspci -vnn

Yes, it starts to boot X=Windows and freezes. It has an Nvidia GEFORCE 820m graphics chipset and an Intel Graphics chipset selectable under Windows10. AntiX boots and goes right past login for root without waiting for me to enter password.
Tried failsafe mode, no joy.
Did not check DVD for errors but iso MD5 was good.
It is an ASUSTP300LD. I can’t find motherboard information.

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Maybe you could set in the bios the graphics to “performance ” where it would only use the nvidia chip and then configure the graphics for the switching setup… I think that uses bumblebee or something like that iirc. But it has been a while since I had a computer with switchable Intel / nvidia chips.

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I found a thread, it suggested turning off the things caprea said.

http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-book-t300la-general-discussion/42246-transformer-t300l-boot-usb-stick-how.html

I do have one of those dual graphics machines but it boots that particular version of AntiX 17 without problems, so that doesn’t help.

[Member mark]

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I finally got a live session going and installed antiX on thumb drive with persistence. Problem seems to have been with the default window manager. I selected min-JWM window manage and was able to get a live session. Thanks for the suggestions, Seems like some window manages lock my system for some reason. I’m not sure if I’m using the Nvidia chip or the Intel graphics chip.
Mark

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Interesting solution to choose another window-manager.
You know that you can switch the desktops during a session in antiX ? (menu–desktop, this change will stay over boot)
It should be the intel I think
Maybe this gives information
glxinfo|egrep "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"

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Hi Mark,
You wrote “It is an ASUSTP300LD. I can’t find motherboard information.”
Here’s a link to the motherboard manual.
https://www.manualslib.com/products/Asus-Tp300ld-4179571.html

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caprea wrote:

Interesting solution to choose another window-manager.
You know that you can switch the desktops during a session in antiX ? (menu–desktop, this change will stay over boot)
It should be the intel I think
Maybe this gives information
glxinfo|egrep "OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer"

Thanks, my usb stick froze just like the live DVD when I switched window managers. The usb no longer complete boot when Xwindows freezes.
Here is the output of your command in Ubuntu and antiX.

mark@mark-TP300LDB:~$ glxinfo|egrep “OpenGL vendor|OpenGL renderer”
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)

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Anonymous wrote:

Hi Mark,
You wrote “It is an ASUSTP300LD. I can’t find motherboard information.”
Here’s a link to the motherboard manual.
https://www.manualslib.com/products/Asus-Tp300ld-4179571.html

Thank you. That’s the laptop manual. It however doesn’t provide motherboard information. I wouldn’t know what to do with mobo info. BobC was asking for that.

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