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Linux Attempt 1
Feb. 1st, 2009 12:54 amFailed.
Popped the Live CD (ubuntu 8.10) in the CD drive and had modified the bios to boot from it. It started up and dropped me at the main menu for how to proceed. I chose the top option to start linux without making changes to the computer. I took this to mean "run directly from the CD" which is what I wanted. I just wanted to see what would happen and all that.
So it went about doing a bunch of checks. Lots and lots of checks. Many timing out apparently. The lines basically started with XXX.XXXXXX ada2.00 or something similar where the X's were numbers. Looked to be ranging numbers or something... Anyway, it got up to 673.XXXXXX or something as the last test it visually appeared to start.
Then the screen when black. And stayed black. The harddrive was running throughout all of this, or at least it's indicator light was on. After 5 minutes of blackness I went to the convenience store. Got back 15 minutes later to see no change other than the harddrive light no longer being active.
So either it booted properly but didn't recognize my monitor, or something went wrong. The iso I made the Live CD from was legit/good as per the md5sum check I ran on it prior to the burn, but that doesn't necessarily mean the CD burnt properly, even if the burner claimed there were no problems.
I'll try burning another Live CD later tonight and potentially trying it again a bit later. I'll use nero to burn the CD at x4 this time tho, rather than the SpeedyCD program that wouldn't burn the disc any slower than x8.
Popped the Live CD (ubuntu 8.10) in the CD drive and had modified the bios to boot from it. It started up and dropped me at the main menu for how to proceed. I chose the top option to start linux without making changes to the computer. I took this to mean "run directly from the CD" which is what I wanted. I just wanted to see what would happen and all that.
So it went about doing a bunch of checks. Lots and lots of checks. Many timing out apparently. The lines basically started with XXX.XXXXXX ada2.00 or something similar where the X's were numbers. Looked to be ranging numbers or something... Anyway, it got up to 673.XXXXXX or something as the last test it visually appeared to start.
Then the screen when black. And stayed black. The harddrive was running throughout all of this, or at least it's indicator light was on. After 5 minutes of blackness I went to the convenience store. Got back 15 minutes later to see no change other than the harddrive light no longer being active.
So either it booted properly but didn't recognize my monitor, or something went wrong. The iso I made the Live CD from was legit/good as per the md5sum check I ran on it prior to the burn, but that doesn't necessarily mean the CD burnt properly, even if the burner claimed there were no problems.
I'll try burning another Live CD later tonight and potentially trying it again a bit later. I'll use nero to burn the CD at x4 this time tho, rather than the SpeedyCD program that wouldn't burn the disc any slower than x8.
