On the same flash drive I have a Porteus 3.5 Nemesis ISO which I can also boot on the Acer machine.
I have now added a Porteus 3.2.1 ISO to the flash drive and when it invokes vmlinuz or maybe its initrd.xz the screen goes blank and stays that way. The only way out is to literally power the Acer machine off. Is there any command that will help show what the problem is? Or log?
All the systems are being booted via grub2. And are 64-bit. And the same flash drive on a non-EFI Acer machine boots all 3 systems.
Nemesis menu
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menuentry "Porteus Nemesis 3.5 ISO" --class slackware --class icon-linux {
echo Boot disk address is: $root
echo Prefix is: $prefix
echo The boot mode is: $grub2win_bootmode
set linux_folder=porteus3.x
set iso=/ISOs/porteus-nemesis-v3.5-lxde-x86_64.iso
search -f $iso --set=root
set linux_drv=/mnt/sda5/$linux_folder
if [ -f (hd1,1)/USB_INSTALLATION.txt ]; then
set linux_drv=/mnt/sdb1/$linux_folder
fi
if [ -f (hd0,1)/USB_INSTALLATION.txt ]; then
set linux_drv=/mnt/sdb1/$linux_folder
fi
echo ISO root is: $root
echo ISO is: $iso
set porteus_parms="changes=$linux_drv/porteussave.dat volume=33 reboot=cold 3"
echo Porteus changes: $linux_drv/porteussave.dat
echo Porteus parms are: $porteus_parms
echo
loopback loop $iso
sleep -v -i 7
echo "Loading Linux"
linux (loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=$iso $porteus_parms
echo "Loading initrd"
initrd (loop)/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
}
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menuentry "Porteus Cinnamon ISO - AF+" --class slackware --class icon-porteus {
echo Boot disk address is: $root
echo Prefix is: $prefix
echo The boot mode is: $grub2win_bootmode
set linux_folder=porteus3.2
set iso=/ISOs/Porteus-CINNAMON-v3.2.1-x86_64.iso
search -f $iso --set=root
set linux_drv=/mnt/sda5/$linux_folder
if [ -f (hd1,1)/USB_INSTALLATION.txt ]; then
set linux_drv=/mnt/sdb1/$linux_folder
fi
if [ -f (hd0,1)/USB_INSTALLATION.txt ]; then
set linux_drv=/mnt/sdb1/$linux_folder
fi
echo ISO root is: $root
echo ISO is: $iso
echo Porteus folders: $linux_drv
set porteus_parms="extramod=$linux_drv/Modules;$linux_drv/modsavedat noload=save.dat volume=33 reboot=cold"
echo Porteus parms are: $porteus_parms
echo
loopback loop $iso
sleep -v -i 17
echo "Loading Linux"
linux (loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=$iso $porteus_parms
echo "Loading initrd"
initrd (loop)/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
}