antiX in a HP Compaq 6715S?

[Member bluejay77]

I write this with an HP Compaq 6715S laptop, one 64bit core, 2GB of RAM, and 120GB of HDD.

Now and here I run the Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS in this laptop. That Linux is no more supported. But it will run 100% OK in this machine.

I attempted to boot the antiX 64bit into this machine. It did not load.

I tried to book the antiX 32bit into this machine. It did load, but it would crash repeatedly.

I suspect there is a HDD device driver problem, or something similar to that one, in the antiX Linux.

regards, AJY
Finland

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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Howdy and Welcome. Did you md5sum check your AntiX isos and give more detail on what you tried as far as isos go?

Seeing that I can run a Chromebook on AntiX installed fully and internally on my SSD drive and using my SD card as a kinda /home partition. Just fine and dandy. Is why I ask.

harry@biker:~
$ sudo -s
[sudo] password for harry: 
root@biker:~
# df h
df: h: No such file or directory
root@biker:~
# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           389M  648K  388M   1% /run
/dev/sda1        15G  5.0G  8.9G  36% /
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           777M     0  777M   0% /run/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p1   30G   22G  8.6G  72% /media/E10C-A032
root@biker:~
# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="rootantiX" UUID="ea719934-26e3-4f25-af62-4f54438f456d" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="5a6d0bed-01"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: UUID="E10C-A032" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="0005e83f-01"
/dev/mmcblk0: PTUUID="0005e83f" PTTYPE="dos"
root@biker:~
# cd /media
root@biker:/media
# ls -a
.  ..  E10C-A032
root@biker:/media
# cd
root@biker:~
# exit
exit
harry@biker:~
$ inxi -F
System:    Host: biker Kernel: 4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: IceWM 1.4.2 
           Distro: antiX-17_x64-full Heather Heyer 24 October 2017 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Google product: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Google model: Parrot v: 1.0 serial: <root required> BIOS: coreboot v: 4.0-6588-g4acd8ea-dirty 
           date: 09/04/2014 
Battery:   ID-1: BATX charge: 33.1 Wh condition: 32.3/37.0 Wh (87%) 
CPU:       Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Celeron 1007U bits: 64 type: MCP L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
           Speed: 1206 MHz min/max: 800/1500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1344 2: 929 
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Display: server: X.Org 1.19.2 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ivybridge Mobile v: 3.3 Mesa 13.0.6 
Audio:     Card-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.9-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9462 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 3c:77:e6:26:f5:b5 
           Card-2: Broadcom Limited NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 20:1a:06:14:09:d9 
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 44.64 GiB used: 26.12 GiB (58.5%) 
           ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD32G size: 29.72 GiB 
           ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: SanDisk model: SSD U100 16GB size: 14.91 GiB 
Partition: ID-1: / size: 14.62 GiB used: 4.97 GiB (34.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:      Processes: 132 Uptime: 22h 10m Memory: 3.79 GiB used: 722.2 MiB (18.6%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.10 
harry@biker:~
$ 

More info given on your HP laptop, spec, details, would help members also reply to your thread.

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[Member bluejay77]

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I used a mirror, instead of the torrent, and succeeded in downloading the .ISO file OK.

Checked with the md5sum program, the check OK.

When booting from a CD ROM, the error message I get is:

“GRUB failed to install to the following device:

/dev/sda

(It is my HDD, it is a 120GB FUJITSU MHW2120BH HDD.)”

Thank you for your answer: It did help!

[Member bluejay77]

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I burned the .iso file onto the CD ROM with the Brasero program.

Yes, your entry did help, but I still have the same problem about the boot procedure crashing with the “cannot install GRUB into the Fujitsu HDD” problem.

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