Lenovo S10-3c boot failure

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Lenovo S10-3c boot failure

Post#1 by DAsh » 10 Jun 2012, 04:45

Hi, everyone.

I'm newbie in Linux and trying to run Porteus on my Lenovo S10-3c there's a boot failure. While running from CD it hangs up after "Loading /boot/initrd.xz...ready." string. While running from external hdd it just reboots after the same string. I tryed some cheatcodes suggested in FAQ, but none of them worked. Are there any solutions?

Before I also tryed different linux distributions, but the only one that ran almost without any bugs was the Ubuntu 11.x (though there was one bug - internal keyboard didn't work until entering some boot params) and it was too slow for this laptop, so I browsed some littleweight linux distribs and Porteus looks like what I need... except for it doesn't work.

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D.

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Re: Lenovo S10-3c boot failure

Post#2 by fanthom » 10 Jun 2012, 07:37

hi DAsh,

i have a couple of suggestions to try:
a) make sure that md5sum of downloaded ISO is correct. please cheack FAQ answer 5
b) try to boot into 'text mode' (or remove vga=791 cheatcode from any other boot option)
c) try following cheats: "noapic acpi=off"
d) upgrade to latest rc2 of upcoming porteus-1.2

let me know if any of the suggestions posted above let you pass "Loading /boot/initrd.xz...ready" string.
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Re: Lenovo S10-3c boot failure

Post#3 by DAsh » 10 Jun 2012, 09:27

b) (text mode) worked. Thank you!

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