Hello,
I am having problems installing Linux Mint on an old laptop. The machine is a Compaq Evo N1015v (more than 10 years old), and the BIOS won't allow it to boot from a USB stick. However I can use Plop Boot Manager on a CD to then boot from a bootable USB stick, and a live session runs well (although a little slowly).
Installing from the live session seems to go normally, but the installation never completes; the installation window goes away but the normal cursor never comes back - it shows the spinning 'Please Wait' cursor and stops there. The computer seems to carry on working fine (it doesn't freeze up), but nothing more happens. If I use gparted to look at the partition I have installed into then it tells me that there is a Mint installation on there. I am therefore guessing (although it's only a guess) that the installation happens but the installer is unable to set the boot process correctly.
If you close the machine down (end the live session) and reboot, the machine shows the message "Operating system not found". If I boot back into another live session (from Plop Boot Manager and a USB stick) and install Yannubuntu's Boot-Repair then it is unable to repair the boot and gives me the message "Please enable a repository containing the [linux-generic] packages in the software sources of Linux (sda1). Then try again". The BootInfo Summary it creates is here:
http://paste2.org/N7szWtFd
If anyone can give me any help with this then I would be very grateful - thank you.
Oli.
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