<div>Only thing I could think of was init or systemd<br></div><div> I don't think older machines will work with systemd.<br></div><div>I could be wrong wont be the first time.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user">Sent from <a href="https://protonmail.ch">ProtonMail</a>, encrypted email based in Switzerland.<br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a href="https://protonmail.com" target="_blank">ProtonMail</a> Secure Email.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐<br></div><div> On June 16, 2018 3:41 PM, Peter <pjr@bmts.com> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><p>Weird!<br></p><p>I got 17.3 Mint rosa installed on ide so I can choose 17.3; but
Ubuntu 18.04 and Lubuntu 18.04 don't boot from cd.<br></p><p>I put the dvd (recently downloaded version so after the official
release date) and checked it sha256 - OK; ran the memory
diagnostic - OK.<br></p><p>I get a funny little logo at the bottom of a mauve screen and
then the screen goes black.<br></p><p>After some time, (and sounds like the dvd is looping) I hit Esc
and get some text on the screen:<br></p><blockquote><p>44.024034 ata1.01 : exception Emask 0x0 soct 0x0 Serr 0x0
action 0x6 frozen<br></p><p>44.21031 ata1.01: a0/1:00 (followed by more similar numbers)<br></p><p>44.24103 Read(10)28 00 00 23 (and more such) Emask 0x4
(timeout)<br></p><p>44.24204 ata1.01: status {DRDY}<br></p></blockquote><p>If I wait some more, I get a repetition of the above preceded by
82. ... instead of 44. <br></p><p>And after another wait I get another repetition at 117. I then
power off the computer. I had to write down the above, obviously,
so there may be mistakes in it, but you get the gist. I don't know
what it all means. Does anyone else?<br></p><p>Peter Richards<br></p><p><br></p><pre cols="72" class="moz-signature">Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein<br></pre><div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-06-14 12:19 PM, Chris Clark
wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Peter,<br></div><div>Sounds Like Fun, reminds me of installing PCLinuxOS the
first time.<br></div><div>I was thinking I might have to install with another machine
and move the HDD over 1 at a time.<br></div><div><u><b>Will it boot to pxe ???</b></u><br></div><div>Thanks !!<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:pjr@bmts.com">pjr@bmts.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div>Hello
Chris:<br></div><div> <br></div><div> I got Linux Mint Maya installed and booting - finally.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> The box I borrowed from STARS has a SATA (Samsung SP0411C/R,
sda, 40 HB SATA, 7200 rpm, D0 in BIOS) as well as 2 IDE (
ST3082110A, 80 GB, IDE D4 in BIOS, and a cd/dvd drive)
drives and a 3.5 inch diskette drive. One site in my
research said that Dell shipped the IDE drives jumpered as
Cable Select but their installations only worked if they
were jumpered as Master & Slave. I did not change
anything here and I don't know how mine were jumpered. The
Dell Precision 380 dates somewhere on or after 2006 but is a
nice machine, nonetheless.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> The 3.5 inch always showed its light on. I tried the ancient
thing of turning the connector over (in the days before
keyed connectors, having the drive light always on was a
sign it was on backwards) - no change, so I unplugged it and
turned it OFF in the BIOS. And I don't have any diskettes to
try in it, anyway.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> The box was not happy if the SATA drive was disconnected and
would not boot.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> UNETBOOTIN on a USB stick did not work.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> I put the Maya cd in the drive and changed the boot order in
BIOS and it booted OK. Then I installed Linux. All appeared
to go well, but it would not boot. I tried a System Rescue
Disk and a Knoppix disk and I could see all the Linux files
were on the SATA drive, sda. But no boot. Tried the
update-grub (I can never remember if it's update-grub or
grub-update!) but it complained that I was attempting to
change a read-only file several tries and an error message
which I've forgotten. Othere people reported similar
messages. Several times it appeared to be booting and
stopped; hitting ctrl-esc showed the last activity was
starting the cups printing server. Tried the Boot Repair
disk - it reported success and finished, but no boot. Note,
for the installation of Maya, I did the manual ('something
else') install and partitioned the drive as 100 MB for
/boot, 10 GB for /, 5 GB for swap area, and the rest as
/home. This is my usual process so I can change the OS
version and not lose my /home files. But I still make a
backup just in case when I upgrade even though I've never
had to use it.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> So, I went back to square one, as they say. Put the Maya cd
in and ran the live version. I deleted the existing
partition table and created a new one using GPARTED. Then I
installed Maya again. This time I told it to erase the disk
and take it all for the installation, except it wanted a
swap area, so I gave it 5 GB for that. Installation went OK
as before. Then, wonders never cease, it rebooted after I
restarted it (soft one, ie no power off). Then I did the
update. Many new files, including LibreOffice - is that
normal? Shutdown (hard, power off) and reboot. Success!
Repeated the shutdown/restart several times OK.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> In summary: I turned off the diskette drive, made sure the
SATA drive and the IDEs were plugged in, tried several times
with the cd boot process and did not pre-partition the drive
but let Maya take it over.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> If I do it again, I might try putting /home on the IDE
drive, but that will come much later, if at all. Also, I
might try Ubuntu 18, just for giggles.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Peter Richards<span class="HOEnZb"><span class="colour" style="color:#888888"><br> <br> -- <br> Two things are infinite: the universe and human
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