1 Topic by Bekar

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Topic: Boot-up freezing using LiveCD-0.3.3-0

Hi,

I've got a Toshiba Tecra A8 laptop, trying to use the Livecd to juggle the partitions.

I can't get the CD to boot though.  It gets up to:

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

Then just locks up.

I've tried using 'noapic', 'pci=biosirq', and 'nolapic', but the bootup still freezes at that point.

Anybody have any idea's on how to get this to boot-up?

2 Reply by CD-RW

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Re: Boot-up freezing using LiveCD-0.3.3-0

It is possible that the downloaded .iso file was corrupted during the download. This is why I have asked for an md5 checksum so that we can verify the integrity of the download befoe burning the .iso to CD.

3 Reply by LarryT

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Re: Boot-up freezing using LiveCD-0.3.3-0

MD5 is just in the near of the iso file !

Larry
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Former GParted-LiveCD maintainer (2007)

4 Reply by Griminal (edited by Griminal 2007-01-02 17:29:39)

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Re: Boot-up freezing using LiveCD-0.3.3-0

I have the same problem with a HP DC5100.  What I ended up doing was booting off a Slax live CD.  I downloaded the Gparted module  http://www.slax.org/modules.php?categor … d+%26+libs to a USB key, double click it within Slax and Gparted is now in the KDE menu. 

Use Gparted as directed after that!

HTH

*update*

Forgot to mention that you need to "unmount" the drives you wish to work with first.