[lubuntu-users] Lubuntu 16.04 Alternate from a USB stick No network

[Andre Campos Rodovalho]

It might help to debug if you remove the "quiet splash" kernel parameters
in GRUB. Can you do this on your USB boot drive?


2016-05-31 16:35 GMT-03:00 E James <e_james at moladn.net>:

> On 31/05/16 17:50, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote:
> > What is your video card?
> >
> >     The longer story....
> >
> >     I have a Shuttle with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu and 512MB ram. It is
> configured for dual boot - Windows (XP Pro) / Linux (now Lubuntu 14.04).
> >     It was running Lubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to use ffmpeg but I got an
> error messsage - "illegal operation" so I thought to upgrade it to 16.04.
> >     I have a 32GB usb stick which currently has 21 different
> boot/install options using YUMI multiboot. I wasn't sure if the PC would
> boot from it but it did, up to the point of the YUMI menu. Every option I
> tried from the menu would start to boot and then hang at apparently the
> same point in the boot process. The PC has a DVD drive but won't boot from
> DVD, only CD. The 16.04 Alternate iso won't fit on a CD. So I did a
> distribution upgrade to 14.04 and still ffmpeg wouldn't run. Then I caught
> on that the version of ffmpeg I was using was too modern for the cpu so I
> compiled one which worked. I can presumably do another upgrade to 16.04 if
> I still want it, but not until the option is available from the update
> manager. Currently the PC is doing what I want it to do ... slowly. I am in
> no hurry to make further changes.
> >
>
> I'm assuming you are referring to my Shuttle PC. I think this extract from
> lshw is what you want.
>
>            *-display UNCLAIMED
>                 description: VGA compatible controller
>                 product: VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266]
>                 vendor: S3 Graphics Ltd.
>                 physical id: 0
>                 bus info: pci at 0000:01:00.0
>                 version: 00
>                 width: 32 bits
>                 clock: 66MHz
>                 capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master
> cap_list
>                 configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=255 mingnt=4
>                 resources: memory:ec000000-ec07ffff
> memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:ec080000-ec08ffff
>
> If you're thinking it might have something to do with the failure to boot
> from usb, there's another idea I stumbled across some time ago, possibly in
> connection with this PC. Apparently some boot processes temporarily disable
> the usb controller - not very helpful if you're using it to boot.
>
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