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787150 2009-06-30 22:45:00 ok, here's what the static looks like.


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LarsJohann (13010)
787151 2009-06-30 22:50:00 Lovely. Based on what you've told us so far, and what that looks like, I'd say that Xorg is failing to autodetect the correct settings (hence the weird result). In the help options for the bootloader, do you see an option for 'vga mode' or 'safe graphics mode'?

The weird static-looking stuff is unlikely to damage anything.
Erayd (23)
787152 2009-06-30 22:55:00 i'll go take a look. LarsJohann (13010)
787153 2009-06-30 23:02:00 ok well, i tried an option like this :


live video=ofonly

and it has seemed to work, the static did not pop-up and text saying Loading, Please Wait... popped up. Now, i'm just waiting to see..

ps. Thanks for the help Erayd, i really appreciate it :)
LarsJohann (13010)
787154 2009-06-30 23:05:00 and now, it has just stopped at a black screen with a little white bar in the top left hand corner(similar to when you are typing in DOS). It stayed like that after it said Loading Please Wait.. LarsJohann (13010)
787155 2009-06-30 23:18:00 ok responding again, i typed this:


live-nosplash-powerpc video=ofonly

and now, i can actually see stuff working (in DOS like format)

but however all i can see are errors, many errors; from what i can read some of them are I/O buffer errors, some stuff like no disk in drive, e.t.c. i am confused...
LarsJohann (13010)
787156 2009-06-30 23:24:00 As I mentioned above, we can't help you unless you actually tell us what the errors are. Anything else is like phoning up your mechanic and saying "my car is broken - can you tell me how to fix it?" without giving them any information to work from. Erayd (23)
787157 2009-06-30 23:38:00 i'm getting errors like :

Buffer I/O error on device HDA.
no disk in drive ide.
SQUASHFS error.
Atapi device hda : Unrecovered read error.
LarsJohann (13010)
787158 2009-06-30 23:42:00 We have a few linux geeks resident to this forum, so if you run into any problems...:thumbs:

are you one of them? :D
powerover (12121)
787159 2009-06-30 23:48:00 i'm getting errors like :

Buffer I/O error on device HDA.
no disk in drive ide.
SQUASHFS error.
Atapi device hda : Unrecovered read error.
That looks like problems reading stuff off the CD. Does the CD drive actually work properly? Normally half-working scenarios like that mean the disk is damaged or corrupted, or the drive is stuffed.

Any chance you could give us another pic of the errors?
Erayd (23)
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