On 09/17/2015 12:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 11:43 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
Hi
I have a Qosmio G25 that I have had for some year. It has been a dual
boot system with Windoz XP on one 60GB drive and Debian Wheezy on the
other 60GB drive using a Grub2 loader. I recently tried to up grade
to
Jessie and the installation now hangs on boot. There is also problems
with the Windows side as well. The short tale is that I want to
reformat
both disks and install Jessie from scratch. I have both a stick
netinstall and and a DVD netinstall available. For some reason I
can't
find a set of instructions that cover installation from scratch. All
seem to assume that windows or some such is already installed.
Neither
my stick or my DVD will start on boot up no matter what I try. The
BIOS
on this system is a bit strange but on boot up there is an option to
select what device is to be booted if you are quick. I know that some
of
the bells and whistles on the laptop won't have drivers available in
linux but don't care. Knoppix boots fine. Could this be used for what
I
want to do.
Does anyone know where I can find a concise set of instructions for a
"cold iron" installation.
Gary R.
Hi,
According to this site, that system should be quite well-supported:
http://www.linlap.com/toshiba_dynabook_qosmio_g25
That a good site to remember. Thanks
I'm not sure why you can't find instructions for a clean install? Most
installation guides assume you start from scratch, there's also the
Debian installation guide:
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual
Chapter 3.1 step 5 - Boot the installation system.
And that is where my problem starts. There is no installation system.
Or are they saying that the CD will auto start. It won't.
Now what?
It's possible that you might not be able to boot from USB, it can be a
finicky system, or maybe a bad USB drive, or a problem with how you
transferred the image to the drive.
Tried this to no avail. Tried 3 different usb drives. The travel mouse
worked fine so no problem with the usb ports.
Booting from CD or DVD should not be a problem, have you validated the
checksum after download and burnt the disc correctly?
How do you boot into Knoppix?
The Knoppix DVD took of like a shot. No problem getting it to load.
I think I have burned a half dozen netinstall cds and dvds. None would
auto start.
If there isn't time to select the boot device during startup, you
should be able to enter the BIOS and change the boot drive manually.
From a quick skim through Google it seems to be either Esc or F1.
HTH,
Actually, the bios has a neat feature. There are 5 icons that show up on
the bottom of the first screen. They are HD1, HD2, CD, FD ( none exists)
and network. By quickly hitting the right/left arrow keys you can pick
which device from which you wish to boot. If I select the CD icon with
the Knoppix disk installed Knoppix starts to immediately load. No debian
netinstall disk that I have tried has worked. This is not too surprising
since the loading files in the disk seem to be windoz startup files. One
article I found suggested that going to the /install directory might be
a way to start the disk. Doesn't work.
I just formatted HD2 to a standard ext4 partition with swap space. Now
the system drops to grub rescue mode when started. I need to do some
studying on this. May have some possibilities.
Gary R.
