Trouble booting the ISO

[colin012]

I set the computer to only boot from a CD in BIOS but when I put the CD in it says "Error reading disk insert CD and press ENTER" I tried both drives and two different CDs but the same thing keeps happening. I was really looking forward to using Kubuntu but for some reason the darn CD won't boot. Help please?

[arochester]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

1) Does the CD work in another computer?
2) Is the CD one you made yourself? Are you sure it is right? Look at "BurningIsoHowto" on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

[colin012]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

I did get the CD to boot. Now I need more help. I went to "Start Kubuntu without changing you hard drive, and it listed a bunch of things marking [OK] on each side and stopped at blutooth. After waiting it sent me a wierd message and prompted me to type "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" to disable the message. What do I do now.

[arochester]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

Have you got any bluetooth device connected that you use? Or do you have none?

[colin012]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

Nada.

[arochester]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

Have you got a TV card?

What version are you installing? 9.04?

[colin012]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

I installed Jaunty.

Yes I do have a TV card but it runs just fine with it in.


I did a trouble shoot and found out that it was my netgear wireless USB adapter. So now I have Kubuntu working but I cannot access the internet. I have another one but I couldn't figure out how to install the software to run it or any software off of a CD. Also is there a list of USB adapters that work with Kubuntu somewhere?

[Snowhog]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

Might provide insight:
WifiDocs WiFiHowTo - Wi-Fi WLAN wireless home networking information

[colin012]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

I am almost there but this page is giberish to me: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/

All I know is that both adapters are 802.11g. I cannot tell which huge group of random letters to look at. I don't know if they are model numbers or what they are. So please continue to help the new guy. (me)

[Ole Juul]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

I have had a problem with installs stopping at bluetooth. This was just over a year ago and I think it was with 8.04 but it was happening with a number of other distributions as well. I was desperate to get Linux on that machine so I tried quite a few and they all stopped at the same place despite there not being any bluetooth devices on the machine. I finally traced the problem to a faulty internal USB card reader. Unplugging the reader did the trick. All flavours of Linux could install after that without stopping at bluetooth. This might not be your particular problem but I just wanted to alert you to the fact that bluetooth is tied in with USB. By the way, this machine originally ran Windows-XP just fine so it took a while to trace the problem.

[Ole Juul]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

I am almost there but this page is giberish to me: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/

All I know is that both adapters are 802.11g. I cannot tell which huge group of random letters to look at. I don't know if they are model numbers or what they are. So please continue to help the new guy. (me)

That page looks like it's about wpa which is about security.
The 802.11g is a standard that is OS independent. The real concern for Linux compatibility is the chipset. The link that Snowhog posted talks about that.

You can get info on what you have connected to USB by typing "lsusb" on the command line. An important piece of information is the vendor ID. I've found that putting that number into Google can ferret out the chipset and thus compatibility and availability of drivers. Hopefully you can get the rest of the instructions you need from the howto or someone here who is more knowledgable.

[arochester]

Re: Trouble booting the ISO

It is interesting that 1) you have a TV card and 2) talk has turned to USB.

There was a bug, with Intrepid, where Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB 2 (and other Hauppauge cards) caused some trouble. It was reported in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/262927 . It produced the same problem in Mandriva and was thought to be a general a general kernel problem.

One post said: workaround from pvrusb2 mailing list (http://www.isely.net/pipermail/pvrus...er/001918.html)

aarne@mythtv:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/pvrusb2
options pvrusb2 initusbreset=0