bimalc
December 23rd, 2009, 05:20 AM
So I have been trying all day to load netbook remix by way of a kingston 4gb usb flash drive which I used both unetbootin and the instruction on linux pendrive to make (planning to dual boot with windows 7 on my S12 with ion) and all I've gotten is a bunch of 'sqashfs' errors (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SquashfsErrors).
I have tried:
changing the IDE mode to compatibility instead of SATA (made windows unbootable, didn't help at all with loading ubuntu)
checking the MD5 sum(passed)
using the ACPI=off option
using IDE=nodma option
using both of the above options simultaneously.
The furthest along I can get is the checklist where you see the ubuntu logo and it iterates all the things it is checking/loading and saying 'ok' to. There are more 'tasks' listed than 'ok's (if that makes sense; either this is by plan, or there are somethings failing and this might be a place to look for clues as to what's going wrong) but eventually the screen will flash over with a burst of color (I'd swear it was a desktop with a blue background, but at this point I might just be hallucinating) and then it goes black except for a watch (or at least what looks like a watch to me) sitting in the middle of a screen. The system is totally unresponsive at that point until I tried tapping the power button and then I got dumped back at a terminal like environment (but without an actual prompt I could type at) and I'm presented with a string of 'squashfs' errors.
Using various combinations of runtime options and bios configurations, I've variously managed to end up at the same point before ubuntu even went through the checklist of things it was trying to load and one time even ended up at a terminal prompt Ubuntu$ubuntu, but I've never successfully made it into the gui ...
I like to think I'm a reasonably sophisiticated end user, but I can't find any comprehensive solution to the whole squashfs error scenario ...
I'm going to try and bum a surplus USB off of someone in the next couple of days (I'm stuck in western NY at the inlaws without access to a car) in case it is the flashdrive, but other suggestions would be appreciated.
I have tried:
changing the IDE mode to compatibility instead of SATA (made windows unbootable, didn't help at all with loading ubuntu)
checking the MD5 sum(passed)
using the ACPI=off option
using IDE=nodma option
using both of the above options simultaneously.
The furthest along I can get is the checklist where you see the ubuntu logo and it iterates all the things it is checking/loading and saying 'ok' to. There are more 'tasks' listed than 'ok's (if that makes sense; either this is by plan, or there are somethings failing and this might be a place to look for clues as to what's going wrong) but eventually the screen will flash over with a burst of color (I'd swear it was a desktop with a blue background, but at this point I might just be hallucinating) and then it goes black except for a watch (or at least what looks like a watch to me) sitting in the middle of a screen. The system is totally unresponsive at that point until I tried tapping the power button and then I got dumped back at a terminal like environment (but without an actual prompt I could type at) and I'm presented with a string of 'squashfs' errors.
Using various combinations of runtime options and bios configurations, I've variously managed to end up at the same point before ubuntu even went through the checklist of things it was trying to load and one time even ended up at a terminal prompt Ubuntu$ubuntu, but I've never successfully made it into the gui ...
I like to think I'm a reasonably sophisiticated end user, but I can't find any comprehensive solution to the whole squashfs error scenario ...
I'm going to try and bum a surplus USB off of someone in the next couple of days (I'm stuck in western NY at the inlaws without access to a car) in case it is the flashdrive, but other suggestions would be appreciated.