Version 3.1 won't boot on HP Mini 1000

[advb69]

Hi,

I have used the Mate version of Porteus 3.0 on my HP Mini 1000 netbook and it works fine. I decided to give version 3.1 a go but none of the versions I tried (Mate, XFCE and LXQt) will work.

It gets past Phase I of the boot process but then the screen goes blank. (Its at the point in the process when the text of the bootup process normally changes to the native LCD resolution.) There is a bit more disk activity but the screen remains blank. I can then only power it off. I've tried the text only option but the same thing happens.

I boot from a USB key and tried it on my main PC and my wife's Acer netbook. Version 3.1 boots normally on them.

Any suggestions why 3.0 works but 3.1 wont? The netbook screen has a slightly odd resolution (1024x576).

Thanks!

[advb69]

Just a quick update. I downloaded Porteus Kiosk version 3.2 and it booted into the GUI normally. (It didn't recognise the netbook WiFi card but that's a common problem as it is a Broadcom card.)

So the boot problem is only with version 3.1 of standard Porteus but not with 3.0 or the Kiosk version.

[fanthom]

this is bit unusual to use kiosk to resolve hardware issues in desktop edition but i'm happy that kiosk can be useful

please enable 'debug mode' in kiosk and send me generated report on fanthom@porteus.org as per:
http://porteus-kiosk.org/news.html#150104

thanks

[advb69]

Unfortunately, the Kiosk Wizard starts to run but cannot connect to the network. I've tried on my PC and 2 netbooks, both using the wired and WiFi connection options, but it fails. (I've downloaded the Kiosk ISO image twice and tried both from USB and CD with the same result.) So I can't try the debug option on the HP Mini.

But thanks for trying to help.

[fanthom]

that's very strange. porteus-kiosk.org must be blocked somehow as i'm newarly sure that all wired drivers are compiled into kernel.

anyway - lets go back to Desktop edition. please boot with 'nomodeset' cheatcode which give you GUI (using VESA driver) or let you booting to the text mode. once you are there please run 'psinfo' command -> upload generated report to pastebin.com -> link here.

thank you

[advb69]

Hi,

The "nomodeset" cheatcode gets all versions booting into the GUI so I have run psinfo as requested. I have pasted the output to pastebin with a title "Porteus version 3.1 won't boot on HP Mini 1000 - PSInfo data".

Thanks for all the help so far.

[fanthom]

please try this solution:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 5619#p5619

you may play with 'acpi_osi=' and 'acpi_backlight=' parameters as well:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentatio ... meters.txt