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andfree
It’s not important for me, I’ll try with an older base version, but I thought I should refer it. I downloaded antiX-17_386-base.iso, checked it with md5sum and burned it to a CD. I tried to boot, but:
ISOLINUX 6.03 6.03* ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2010 H. Peter Anvin et al Failed to load ldlinux.c32 Boot failed: press a key to retry...I retried it with the same result.
$ inxi -Fxz System: Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.3-486-smp i686 bits: 32 gcc: 4.9.3 Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8 Distro: antiX-15.1_386-full Killah P 18 February 2016 Machine: Device: laptop System: TOSHIBA product: Satellite 2450 v: PS245E-03TE0-GK serial: N/A Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC v: Version A0 serial: N/A BIOS: TOSHIBA v: Version 1.30 date: 03/20/2003 CPU: Single core Intel Pentium 4 (-UP-) arch: Netburst Willamette rev.7 cache: 512 KB flags: (pae sse sse2) bmips: 5586 speed: 2793 MHz (max) Graphics: Card: NVIDIA NV17M [GeForce4 420 Go] bus-ID: 01:00.0 Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa) Resolution: 1024x768@60.00hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI nv17 x86/MMX/SSE2 version: 1.2 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Render: Yes Audio: Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: be00 bdc0 bus-ID: 00:1f.5 Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.0.5-antix.3-486-smp Network: Card: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver: 8139too v: 0.9.28 port: ce00 bus-ID: 02:09.0 IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> Drives: HDD Total Size: 100.0GB (63.3% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MK1032GA size: 100.0GB Partition: ID-1: / size: 90G used: 57G (67%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.17GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 ID-3: swap-2 size: 0.24GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/zram0 Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 98 Uptime: 30 min Memory: 237.4/1005.2MB Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2 Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.3.53- This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by rokytnji.
rokytnji
Cd drive might be on it’s last legs. I’d try booting off a pendrive. Install PLOP to hard drive somehow to enable usb booting on such old gear.
At the very least run one of my
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to clean the lens on the drive. Then re-try booting off the cd. Sometimes CD disk themselves can be scratched and cause issues. But I think it is the cdrom drive myself.
Sometimes I drive a crooked road to get my mind straight.
Not all who Wander are Lost.
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How to Search for AntiX solutions to your problemsCd drive might be on it’s last legs. I’d try booting off a pendrive. Install PLOP to hard drive somehow to enable usb booting on such old gear.
At the very least run one of my
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41CqsDd-Q4L._SX425_.jpg
to clean the lens on the drive. Then re-try booting off the cd. Sometimes CD disk themselves can be scratched and cause issues. But I think it is the cdrom drive myself.
I started having issues with the cd drive right after I had used such a Laser Lens Cleaner (probably not the same, that was with a light blue cover, as I remember). There was not important reason for using it, I had borrowed it from a friend to clean the lenses of a cd-player and I thought it was a good opportunity to clean the cd-drive of the laptop, too. While it was played, it made a loud noise. It was summer and I used two books to keep the laptop in a distance from the desk to avoid the overheating, and one of the books was under the cd-drive. Maybe this pressure caused the problem. Afterwards, the drive seemed to be dead, but very soon it worked again. Now it seems to do well all the tasks, except burning disks. I used the other laptop (the compaq one with celeron) and created a live cd and a live usb-flash of Antix-17-base. Both of them are successfully booted at the toshiba laptop, via the problematic drive (the live cd or the PLOP).
I like the idea of installing PLOP to hard drive. How to do it? Create two partitions, one for the PLOP and one for the OS? And how to give boot priority to the OS? Should I install the PLOP first?rokytnji
My power is
Out. Google is your friend for installing plop to hard drive. No special tricks for that. Just a menu entry off the plop CD and a left click is all that is required.Using my phone to reply.
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 problemsMy power is
Out. Google is your friend for installing plop to hard drive. No special tricks for that. Just a menu entry off the plop CD and a left click is all that is required.Using my phone to reply.
Thank you for replying to me with power out. I installed plop to hard drive of the compaq (celeron) laptop this way:
I downloaded plpbt-5.0.15.zip and extracted it. I copied plpinstc.com to /boot. I edited /etc/grub.d/40_custom file like this:#!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 menuentry "Install Plop Boot Manager" { set root='(hd0,1)' linux16 /boot/plpinstc.com }I ran update-grub, rebooted and installed the program from the grub menu.
Now I can boot from usb, but not from hard drive:
no valid boot sector signatureAnd I also don’t know how to uninstall plop, so as to return to the previous situation.
Anonymous
websearch “linux boot no valid boot sector signature”
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https://forum.plop.at/index.php?topic=1476.0.
websearch: “uninstall plop linux”
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how to uninstall plop boot manager – Plop Forum
https://forum.plop.at/index.php?topic=391.0Thanks for the links, but finally I did a fresh installation of antiX-17-base which I wanted to test anyway, so I also got rid of the installed plop.
burned it to a CD
You didn’t mention here, and we neglected to ask:
What tool did you feed the iso to, in order to create the CD?
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(if you can recall) Did you choose a “slow” burn speed, or default?Even if those details are anecdotal, might provide a clue to future searchers who encounter similar difficulty.
What tool did you feed the iso to, in order to create the CD?
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(if you can recall) Did you choose a “slow” burn speed, or default?I used Xfburn with the default speed. The CD I created this way at the toshiba laptop could not be booted to none of the laptops. The CD I created the same way at the compaq laptop was booted successfully to both laptops. So, I came to the conclusion that the problem has to do with the burning capability of cd-drive of the toshiba laptop.
jdmeaux1952
Sounds like the cd-drive is on its last legs.
The Kernel has my back covered.
AMD desktop FX-8320 ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 nVidia GeForce 730 GT 8 Gb memory
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LRU# 563815Same Problem, No idea how to fix it
anticapitalista
Don’t use an old version of Unetbootin
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antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.
clickbr
very simple, why not record with the dd command?
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dd if= antiX-17_386-base.iso of=/dev/sr0 bs=8MBwhy not record with the dd command?
Because the resulting bootable media would lack much of the “antiX live” functionality?
The “best tool for the job” is the antiX live-usb-maker utility.
Did you choose a “slow” burn speed, or default?
This question gave me the idea to try a slow burn, but I see that the speed options are Max (the default one), 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0. My Xfburn version is 0.5.2.
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