Unable to boot Mepis live cd on Acer TravelMate Notebook
Submitted by RTC on Mon, 09/03/2007 - 21:42.
Install MEPIS
Posts: 7
Posts: 7
Would welcome any suggestions on how to install Mepis Linux (antiX-Mepis 6.5) onto my Acer TravelMate 370 Notebook.
Tried many different boot options from Mepis Community and from Google searches.
The end result is:
/etc/init: /etc/init: 5: /linuxrc: not found
Have installed using same CD onto my desktop and am able to boot other live cds from my notebook, but am unable to boot the antiX-Mepis 6.5 on my notebook.
Many thanks,
RTC.
Copied and booted MEPIS from second partition on hard drive
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Ok couldn't boot from CD Drive, so copied files from live CD onto a separate partition on my hard drive and booted from there.
This may help other users:
1. Installed Ubuntu and Damn Small Linux on two separate ext3 partitions on hard drive.
2. Copied Live CD contents to smaller DSL partition (in this case to /iso/iso directory).
3. Modified /boot/grub/menu.lst in Ubuntu to boot from DSL (see below).
4. Re-started computer and booted MEPIS from DSL partition and installed onto existing Ubuntu installation (i.e, replacing Ubuntu with MEPIS).
Added code to Ubuntu's grub's menu.lst:
title antiX-DEFAULTS (auto config with xorg display driver)
root (hd0,3)
kernel /iso/iso/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 apm=power-off vga=791 quiet
initrd /iso/iso/boot/initrd.gz
boot
Richard.