Live USB Does Not Boot

[mmutoo]

Hi all,
I am trying to give the new LXDE version a try. I normally use one of the live USB creator tools on my Windows machine to create live USB from the ISO image. I did it before for several distros like Ubuntu and the old versions of PCLOS. However, with the new ISO image of the LXDE edition, I cannot make the system boot up. So, here are what I have tried: Unetbootin, Universal USB Installer, Yumi, Lili. The usb flash drive boots up in my Aspire One netbook, but it does not on my main laptop which I am trying to install the distro on (it is a Dell Inspiron with an onboard shared graphic card). What happens is that for the USB created by some of the above creators, it just starts booting and I see the progress bar filling but finally nothing happens and the screen freezes with the full progress bar. For some others it reports an error about the x-server not being configured properly.
Anybody else has the same issue?

Thanks

[Phil]

Hi mmutoo,

What are the chip specifications of the machine?

I have a recent netbook which will not boot and does what you see, currently running mintified.

[loudog]

try going into the bios and setting the boot options to boot from network first then the usb, optical disk drive, etc. worth a try.

[kc1di]

Hi mmutoo,
I too have a dell insprion  laptop that the latest lxde will not boot on.  Or I should say it boots but get the same results no gui.

It's not a boot problem but a video card problem I haven't bothered to track it down yet as I already have KDE version installed and working fine on that machine.  But I would think that the answer will lie in the default video settings.  If I have time today will research it a little more.
Good luck,
dave

[mmutoo]

@Phil: I don't know what to say! I was trying to boot the netbook today and it does not boot! It is an Acer Aspire One D250. This happens sometimes with this device. It is strange but it acts differently with time!

@loudog: I will try that difinitely. (P.S. It did not work!)

@kc1di: Please let me know if you find something.

Thank you all guys.

[daniel]

Do you have an older lxde.iso from PCLinuxOS? Thinking Version 2012.01 should work without any issues.
There is the kernel 2.6.38 on board.

Regards
Daniel

[mmutoo]

Good new for you Phil! I managed to boot up the netbook. Here is what I did. I formated the flash disk with FAT32 option. Then used Unetbootin 5.8.3 (this is the last version. use this since I had 5.8.1 and it did not work) to make it a live USB. Now plug it in and turn the device on. Hit F12 to choose boot device, and then choose the USB for boot. Now, this is importand and stupid!!!. Keep hitting Enter key until you see the OS is booting (you will see texts printed on the screen). Leave the poor device alone and it will boot up now.

[mmutoo]

@daniel: I do not have an older version but I think you are right and it will work since I have used it before without any problem. I will try to download the older version and test it.
Thanks a lot.

[daniel]

You can try this
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&confirm=no_antivirus&id=0B291X0Agv4vScG84NnRYcE9jb00

md5sum is
c5f87ca76f98835416b576de2718cbf1

To get a actually apt-sources-list try

Code: [Select]

su -c "apt-get install http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/apt/pclinuxos/2010/RPMS.updates/apt-sources-list-1.0.5-2pclos2013.i586.rpm"
Good luck
Daniel

[kc1di]

@Phil: I don't know what to say! I was trying to boot the netbook today and it does not boot! It is an Acer Aspire One D250. This happens sometimes with this device. It is strange but it acts differently with time!

@loudog: I will try that difinitely. (P.S. It did not work!)

@kc1di: Please let me know if you find something.

Thank you all guys.

No luck here if you can't find an older version as Daniel has suggested, What I did was install the kde version it boot just fine on the laptop and installed lxde from the repositories. not as good as the full version but works.

[mmutoo]

@daniel: Many thanks.

@kc1di: I think it is a kernel problem. I remember when I tried to boot up the inspiron, it nagged about the x-server, and then there was an option to see the log. In the log I saw that the x-server is compiled for kernel 2.6.x while the OS has a kernel 3.x.

[mmutoo]

Here is the error I see in the log when I try to boot up my laptop (Dell Inspiron):

...
Build Operating System: Linux_2.6.38.8-pclos3.pae.bfs
Current Operating System: Linux localhost 3.2.18-pclos2.bfs
...
Parse error on line 8 of section InputClass in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf .d/50-synaptics.conf
" " is not a valid keyword in this section.
...

[kc1di]

@ mmutoo
you may be right.  Maybe Neil will come in and enlighten us 

[daniel]

Then try this
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,112419.msg959773.html#msg959773

[mmutoo]

It seems to be the same problem! Thanks daniel. I'll give it a try.

P.S. :It worked! I had double quotes at the end of lines 8 and 9. I deleted the last quote and restarted the x. BTW daniel, is it going to be corrected in the ISO or we have to wait for the next ISO?

P.S. 2 : I noticed something strange! The DE now is different than the one is on my netbook! I used the same ISO image. The one on the netbook has two panels (top and bottom) while this one has only the bottom. And many more differences. Is that normal?!