[Solved] Unable to boot from LiveCd

[k@miney]

Hi,

I have desktop with dual boot setup with Winxp and PCLOS2009.2. I have realized I haevn't used Winxp for a long time now(in my desktop, however I use a laptop provided by company where I have no choice but to use winxp). So its time to get rid of winxp and have only PCLOS or dual boot PCLOS with openSUSE. Now the problem is I have downloaded PCLOS GNOME( I want to change to GNOME just for a change )  

I have made the livecd( yeah I have checked the md5sum before I made made the ivecd, it matches).  Now the problem is when I try to boot from livecd, it comes upto "booting from cd/dvd:" and just hangs. I know I should be posting this in PCLOS GNOME forum. But I think its the problem with my system 'cause same cd boots perfectly fine in my laptop. Same is the case with openSUSE it boots perfectly fine in my laptop but hangs at the same point( I know this is not opeSUSE forum, but just an info if it helps).

Looking for some advice.
Thanks in Advance.

[rayman2]

Usually, if the livecd hangs, it means you have a SATA drive. Choose in the boot menu of the livecd for "SATA_probe". 99% change that will fix your problem.

[k@miney]

I don't even get the livecd boot menu...it doesn't even go there...it says "booting from CD/DVD:" and hangs here after sometime it sarts the GRUB. Could it be a hardware problem... but I dont have any problem in using my CD's or DVD's its only that it fails to boot from CD/DVD.

[DeBaas]

When it start the grub, do you have a menu then ?
Or you can try to make a liveUSB with unetbootin and boot from USB
On the PCLos Gnome version LiveCD_sata_probe is called LiveCD_scsi_probe, it is the same.
When you are at the grub menu (UnetbootinMenu on USB) try to add vesa (F3) at the startupline.
Check your BIOS if it's on IDE emulation mode or AHCI.
just some thoughts..............................

Ed

[k@miney]

Thanks Ed,
 
I thought it to be a hardware issue, I reinstalled the entire CD drive. Then tried to boot, it boots up properly. Then I tried to install to hraddrive(chose "use entire harddisk" option), no problem installation went fine. Then I went into storage media, there I noticed that entire only 150B out of 250GB space is being recognized rest 100 GB is missing. what could be the problem? is there any way to get it back?

[rayman2]

Thanks Ed,
 
I thought it to be a hardware issue, I reinstalled the entire CD drive. Then tried to boot, it boots up properly. Then I tried to install to hraddrive(chose "use entire harddisk" option), no problem installation went fine. Then I went into storage media, there I noticed that entire only 150B out of 250GB space is being recognized rest 100 GB is missing. what could be the problem? is there any way to get it back?

Must be a partitioning thing. Start drakdisk ([alt]+[f2] drakdisk), enter your root password, and you should see some partitions. There you can enlarge partitions, and make partitions smaller.

[menotu]

Must be a partitioning thing. Start drakdisk ([alt]+[f2] drakdisk), enter your root password, and you should see some partitions. There you can enlarge partitions, and make partitions smaller.

Just a quickie - I'd backup all my important data/settings etc to a USB or DVD before modifying your partition sizes, as in some cases it may "misbehave" therefore backing up is always a wise thing to do (unless of course your the 1 in a 100 that do daily backups  )

Another thing to take into account is that some Windows systems come with an "hidden" hard disk partition which has the Windows recovery image on it, but I think that's normally only approx 5-10GB in size, not the 100GB your "missing"

[k@miney]

Thanks Rayman2, I went to drakdisk, there I found my 100GB  .

Menotu, I did all the backups before I went for this clean installation. Actually I dont keep anythin in my harddisk, I keep all my data in USB hard drive, so that whenever I feel like I need a change I quickly cahnge the OS .