plutoniumman
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Hey all,
I’ve been trying to get linux to boot on my PC for a while, but here’s the problem: I can’t get ANY distros to start; even ones that have run perfectly fine before!
I’m mostly interested in backtrack (which has booted MANY times before, and ran pretty well), but for now just getting any live CD distro working would be good. Neither backtrack 4 or 5 will boot. No other distro will boot passed its boot loader. Not even a non-live CD version of linux will start. Any disc I try in any other computer works just fine. Back to my computer, it’ll get to the bootloader screen (like for memtest, safemode etc), and when I select an option, it sometimes shows some white words and then just goes to an all black screen and hangs.
I disconnected all HDDs and peripherals, except for the graphics card (the same GPU that used to work, even with OpenCL). Still the same results. I even switched to an old VGA non-HDCP monitor, incase HDCP was interfering somehow, but still the same problem.
My hardware:
MoBo: MSI 890FXA-GD70
GPU: Diamond HD 6850
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
Distros I’ve tried:
Ubuntu 9.10
Knoppix 5.1.1
OpenSUSE 11.3 32-bit, live (This one is known to have previously worked)
OpenSUSE 11.4 32-bit, live
OpenSUSE 11.4 64-bit, live
OpenSUSE 11.4 64-bit, installer
Backtrack 4 (This one is known to work)
Backtrack 5, 32-bit
I want to say I tried damn small linux, but I can’t remember for sure.
Ubuntu displayed some messages. Luckily I was recording with my video camera. However I’m running some extensive tests (incase there’s some defect in my hardware that windows is somehow able to run perfectly fine despite the defect while linux can’t), which will be finished in about 1 day. When it’s finished I’ll put the frame up.
The only thing I can think of, is somehow updating to the latest BIOS messed it up.
I’ve been trying to get linux to boot on my PC for a while, but here’s the problem: I can’t get ANY distros to start; even ones that have run perfectly fine before!
I’m mostly interested in backtrack (which has booted MANY times before, and ran pretty well), but for now just getting any live CD distro working would be good. Neither backtrack 4 or 5 will boot. No other distro will boot passed its boot loader. Not even a non-live CD version of linux will start. Any disc I try in any other computer works just fine. Back to my computer, it’ll get to the bootloader screen (like for memtest, safemode etc), and when I select an option, it sometimes shows some white words and then just goes to an all black screen and hangs.
I disconnected all HDDs and peripherals, except for the graphics card (the same GPU that used to work, even with OpenCL). Still the same results. I even switched to an old VGA non-HDCP monitor, incase HDCP was interfering somehow, but still the same problem.
My hardware:
MoBo: MSI 890FXA-GD70
GPU: Diamond HD 6850
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955
Distros I’ve tried:
Ubuntu 9.10
Knoppix 5.1.1
OpenSUSE 11.3 32-bit, live (This one is known to have previously worked)
OpenSUSE 11.4 32-bit, live
OpenSUSE 11.4 64-bit, live
OpenSUSE 11.4 64-bit, installer
Backtrack 4 (This one is known to work)
Backtrack 5, 32-bit
I want to say I tried damn small linux, but I can’t remember for sure.
Ubuntu displayed some messages. Luckily I was recording with my video camera. However I’m running some extensive tests (incase there’s some defect in my hardware that windows is somehow able to run perfectly fine despite the defect while linux can’t), which will be finished in about 1 day. When it’s finished I’ll put the frame up.
The only thing I can think of, is somehow updating to the latest BIOS messed it up.
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