Personal computing discussed
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hhhoudini wrote:I see you booted from a "live CD". Was it a real cdrom or an image on a usb stick? I had issues booting linux off of a usb stick on a UEFI board. The boot cdrom worked. (Yea it's slow.) On another forum, someone with the same m/b as I have, couldn't boot in UEFI mode until he connected his cdrom to the primary SATA ports. Kubuntu worked for me on a Sabertooth 990FX board. I did try other distro's but that was probably the first one I thought of booting off a CD and since it worked...
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Elsoze wrote:Many linux distro's have "alternate consoles" that you can get to with a key combination. In RedHat/CentOS it's ctrl+alt+F1 through F9 or however.. it depends on if it's the install or actually running. For a RH install I believe F1 & F2 are shells whereas F3 and/or F4 are log & error outputs.
While installing try to switch through the alt consoles and see if there are any logs telling you what it is hung up on.
Philldoe wrote:Yeah, it's as if it has locked up. I get nothing. I end up having to hold my power button to restart.
Washer wrote:There is a known issue where the boot hangs with systems that have b43 based wireless cards installed. Any chance you're encountering it?
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_maya.php