boot failure

[stealth]

Working on another old computer. HP Pavilion this time. Computer appeared to have a bad hard drive. Using PCLOS KDE 2010.10 could not create partitions and format. Replaced drive and started the install process got to the format part and it just froze. I let it stay that way for about 15 minutes and then canceled the process rebooted and now it hangs in the boot process with a lot of errors including udevd[577]: worker [604] , [651] , [628] , [584] , [955] and then freezes at that point.

Any ideas? Something failing on the mother board?

[stealth]

Just tried booting again this time it booted and went all the way to the desktop but then started throw up kde run interface error messages as fast as I could click them off.

[stealth]

Well I booted again this time I was able to go all the way to the desktop and install the software. I am now running on the new install running the update. Guess I find out if everything is working properly. Maybe this computer has a flaky CD drive.

[stealth]

After the update I am now getting the error could not create RPM database iterator

[Was_Just19]

I susupect your install may not be good .......  if the optical drive had problems reading the media it may have caused some install problems.

I would look to trying to use something more reliable for the install .......

[stealth]

Okay changed out the CD drive and still getting the same behavior. Some times it boots some times it doesn't. Some times it boots all the way up to the desktop on the LiveCD. Some times it just hangs. There is no predictable pattern for where it shows a problem.

It has to be something on the mother board or the CPU itself or maybe a faulty power supply.

Anyone have any ideas?

[rubentje1991]

Did you check the md5sum of the ISO you downloaded?
Did you burn that CD at a low speed?

Maybe you can try to boot from a USB-stick (with UnetBootin)....
If your pc can't boot from USB, burn the ISO slowly to a CD, but also put it on a USB key with UnetBootin;
put in BOTH to boot PCLinuxOS live, and see if it works then.....

Else, come back here, and say what you've done 

[stealth]

Nothing wrong with the CD. I have checked that it is right and I have used it to install several computers already without any problems associated to those installs.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

[wayne128]

Hmm,
I had this similar problem before. Has an old mother board. Very inconsistent boot and also inconsistent read and write. Originally I suspect hard disk, then CD blah blah blah.

It turned out the mother board has bad capacitors, a few of them burged , see images
http://www.google.com.sg/images?oe=utf-8&rls=com.pclinuxos:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&q=bulged+capacitor&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=GhLmTLWVNc3Cca_XpMkK&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQsAQwAA&biw=1600&bih=687

got them replaced, now this old computer, with very old hard disk, still running Linux OS well.

Just take a close look at them, that might happen.

[genomega]

Nothing wrong with the CD. I have checked that it is right and I have used it to install several computers already without any problems associated to those installs.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway.

Ok; can't explain why but I have had CD's that have worked for installing quit working without warning, I re-burn them and they are good to go again. This seems to occur mostly on CD's burnt on a win machine.

  

[stealth]

Wayne128 you are probably giving the best advise. I believe it is a mother board. Because this is not my computer I will not mess around with fixing the board I'll just replace on the customers approval.

genomega interesting. I haven't burned a Linux CD with a winblows machine for more than 7 years so I can verify that behavior.

[GOTHBITES]

Wayne128 you are probably giving the best advise. I believe it is a mother board. Because this is not my computer I will not mess around with fixing the board I'll just replace on the customers approval.

genomega interesting. I haven't burned a Linux CD with a winblows machine for more than 7 years so I can verify that behavior.

i just tried to do the same thing at school today,cause their computer is suddenly missing a vital winblows files to boot up, but when i tried to use the cd ,the computer just hung there and this happens twice with a dell computer from cd and usb. tomorrow im gonna look up the model number, to see if  it is a known issue

heh heh heh he said winblows

[stealth]

Gothbites you crack me up