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| Thread ID: 77038 | 2007-02-25 01:31:00 | A MEPIS problem | Sherman (9181) | Press F1 |
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| 527824 | 2007-02-25 01:31:00 | As some of you know, I downloaded simplyMEPIS live linux CD last night. I burned the image to CD about half an hour ago and tried it out. The boot menu appeared fine, I told it to boot. The startup process gets to about 90% and then decides to start the shutdown process. Needless to say, it turns off. It gave no warnings, explanations etc. Just decided on its own accord to shut down. I tried it again, this time seing the startup process instead of the splash screen. Everything looked like it was starting up just fine and dandy, the various bits and bobs were starting normally, then suddenly said sending TERM signal and proceeded to shut down. Anyone know what's going on?? |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527825 | 2007-02-25 02:19:00 | You'd need to catch what processes were loading/starting just before the term signal. Have you had any issues with the computer prior to this, BSODs in WIndows, etc? Did you verify the MD5 sum of the downloaded Mepis ISO? |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 527826 | 2007-02-25 02:44:00 | As to your first question, The last thing that loaded was "configuring guardog firewall". And i was wrong, it only got to 60 % Secondly, no I havn't had any problems in windows Third, I don't really know what your talking about, I assume it must be some type of error checking? |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527827 | 2007-02-25 02:56:00 | Try booting it up in VGA/minimal mode. How much RAM have you got? Sometimes files are damaged or not whole when they are downloaded. The MD5 sum is a process that checks the integrity of the downloaded file against the original. The MD5 sum should be in the same server directory as the ISO, download it and grab yourself an MD5 checker from you fav download site. I use MD5Summer, had it a while so I don't know what's out there at the mo improvement wise. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 527828 | 2007-02-25 03:40:00 | There must be somthing about my laptop that LiveCD's dont like. I say this because when I ran it in a vmware session, it booted perfectly, yet refuses to load if I boot from startup. Now that i can see the entire boot process happening, I can see that the problem occurs after "INNIT entering runlevel 5" or somthing like that. In the vmware session, it continued loading after this, yet when booted directly, the next thing after saying that it says "sending TERM signal" etc... |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527829 | 2007-02-25 08:13:00 | Wait for one of the Linux gurus or post on the Mepis Forums, they bound to have encountered this issue . I'm wondering whether it is a proprietary nature of the BIOS or a driver of your laptop, maybe (innit 5 should be well after BIOS, but I'm thinking hidden partitions, ACPI and stuff like that, that may load) . Funny it doesn't give an error though . |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 527830 | 2007-02-25 08:33:00 | been a while since I played with mepis but have you tried vga mode as it sounds like a X problem (related to Xserver not being able to detect your screen or video card even if its detected as unknown) also have you tried the different boot modes as Murray asked. Do you get to the login screen? you have a choice of two users "root" and "demo" (if I'm not getting my distros mixed up). Do you see any message that contains the words "Kernel Panic" ? |
beama (111) | ||
| 527831 | 2007-02-25 08:43:00 | been a while since I played with mepis but have you tried vga mode as it sounds like a X problem (related to Xserver not being able to detect your screen or video card even if its detected as unknown) also have you tried the different boot modes as Murray asked. Do you get to the login screen ? you have a choice of two users "root" and "demo" (if I'm not getting my distros mixed up). Do you see any message that contains the words "Kernel Panic" ? Thats what i thought at first also, I did try vga mode, didnt make a differece. Tried different boot modes, no diff. As I said, i didn't get to the login screen, it shutdown before then. It looked like it started the x server correctly. As I said before, it started to shutdown when it changed to runlevel 5 (whatever that is). And no, there was no message like that whatsoever, which is what's making me confused. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527832 | 2007-02-25 08:52:00 | runlevel 5 is basicly starting Xserver for GUI login runlevel 3 is text mode www.skullbox.net/init.php (www.skullbox.net) is there a textmode startup try this also timing important here just before it reboots press ctrl alt backspace keys that should stop x and put you into text mode, the password for logon is the same as the user name, if that works ...welcome to to the linux text world |
beama (111) | ||
| 527833 | 2007-02-25 09:04:00 | With Mepis, the 1st, 2nd & 3rd things to load in Innit 5 is ACPI, your power interface. As I understand it, ACPI can be a little tricky with laptops. What brand, model and year is the lappy? You could disable ACPI in BIOS and see how it goes. |
Murray P (44) | ||
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