Installing on Samsung q310 (reboots when boot to live CD is chosen)

davbren · #1 1st August 2009, 09:40 PM

Hey all. I'm struggling a bit to install F11 on my laptop. When I put in the cd, i get to the menu. I elect to boot into the live cd, then my pc reboots and the menu comes up again...

Any ideas?

scottro · #2 1st August 2009, 11:38 PM

I'm afraid I can't help with the exact problem, as I've never run into it--however, I'm changing the thread title a bit, as may be others have had similar issues. (It might be a LiveCD, rather than Samsung issue.)

Note that it's the weekend, and nice weather in many places, so you might not get many responses before Monday. (I'm hoping that since I write that, I'll be proved wrong, and suddenly, you'll get 6 answers that work)

bbfuller · #3 2nd August 2009, 10:16 AM

Hello davbren

I see from the icons attached to this post that you posted from Ubuntu.

Assuming that you have the liveCD of that, does that boot on the laptop?

If it does, for the sake of another download, I'd download and burn again. Or, if your Ubuntu machine is different to the Laptop, see if the Fedora CD boots on that.

Sorry if you've tried those, but it's all that springs to mind at present.

davbren · #4 2nd August 2009, 02:50 PM

cheers for the reply, I am indeed using Ubuntu on the laptop. I've installed Fedora on another machine without any trouble, using that disk....

bbfuller · #5 2nd August 2009, 03:14 PM

I'd suggest then that there is something about your hardware that Fedora is not happy with and I'm not sure you have many options in a live CD.

You may be able to edit the startup options and if you can it may be worth appending:

Code:

nomodeset

to the kernel boot parameters. As I understand it that prevents X probing the video hardware.

You'll get more opportunities for amending the boot parameters in a DVD install but you may not want to commit that far in advance of trying the distribution.

davbren · #6 2nd August 2009, 03:16 PM

hmm, does Fedora have problems with Nvidia hardware? The desktop I installed it on to had an ATI card...

CSchwangler · #7 2nd August 2009, 03:17 PM

I would also suggest you remove the boot options "quiet" and "rhgb" temporarily, because then you are probably able to see at what point in the boot process it has problems and starts to reboot. You may also be able to see error messages.

bbfuller · #8 2nd August 2009, 03:21 PM

Hello davbren

Not usually, I mainly use nvidia and haven't encountered any problems.

However, the Fedora distribution now uses the "nouveau" nvidia driver and as that hasn't been around as long as the old "nv" I suppose it could be coming across something it was not prepared for.

You may, if you can get to the kernel boot parameters, try adding:

Code:

vesa

there to specify a basic driver. As I said though, I'm not sure just how far you can go with overriding the defaults in a live CD.

CSchwangler · #9 2nd August 2009, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davbren

hmm, does Fedora have problems with Nvidia hardware? The desktop I installed it on to had an ATI card...

Well, not in general. ATI is currently more problematic. However, notebook hardware is usually not the same as desktop hardware, which is more standardized. Notebook hardware is often customized for particular vendor models.

davbren · #10 3rd August 2009, 07:46 PM

hey, I tried everything and nothing is working. its difficult to see at what point it reboots but as far as i can see it doesn't fail at any point.

Seems as though I'm on Ubuntu for a while. Does anyone have any ideas?

davbren · #11 11th September 2009, 11:27 AM

mkay i had to record the boot using my digicam. The boot restarts after:

Code:

running plymouthd
udev: starting version 141

davbren · #12 13th September 2009, 02:15 PM

still noone can help?