It might help to debug if you remove the "quiet splash" kernel parameters in GRUB. Can you do this on your USB boot drive?
2016-05-31 16:35 GMT-03:00 E James <e_ja...@moladn.net>: > On 31/05/16 17:50, Andre Campos Rodovalho wrote: > > What is your video card? > > > > The longer story.... > > > > I have a Shuttle with an Athlon XP 2000+ cpu and 512MB ram. It is > configured for dual boot - Windows (XP Pro) / Linux (now Lubuntu 14.04). > > It was running Lubuntu 12.04 and I wanted to use ffmpeg but I got an > error messsage - "illegal operation" so I thought to upgrade it to 16.04. > > I have a 32GB usb stick which currently has 21 different > boot/install options using YUMI multiboot. I wasn't sure if the PC would > boot from it but it did, up to the point of the YUMI menu. Every option I > tried from the menu would start to boot and then hang at apparently the > same point in the boot process. The PC has a DVD drive but won't boot from > DVD, only CD. The 16.04 Alternate iso won't fit on a CD. So I did a > distribution upgrade to 14.04 and still ffmpeg wouldn't run. Then I caught > on that the version of ffmpeg I was using was too modern for the cpu so I > compiled one which worked. I can presumably do another upgrade to 16.04 if > I still want it, but not until the option is available from the update > manager. Currently the PC is doing what I want it to do ... slowly. I am in > no hurry to make further changes. > > > > I'm assuming you are referring to my Shuttle PC. I think this extract from > lshw is what you want. > > *-display UNCLAIMED > description: VGA compatible controller > product: VT8375 [ProSavage8 KM266/KL266] > vendor: S3 Graphics Ltd. > physical id: 0 > bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 > version: 00 > width: 32 bits > clock: 66MHz > capabilities: pm agp agp-2.0 vga_controller bus_master > cap_list > configuration: latency=32 maxlatency=255 mingnt=4 > resources: memory:ec000000-ec07ffff > memory:e0000000-e7ffffff memory:ec080000-ec08ffff > > If you're thinking it might have something to do with the failure to boot > from usb, there's another idea I stumbled across some time ago, possibly in > connection with this PC. Apparently some boot processes temporarily disable > the usb controller - not very helpful if you're using it to boot. > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >
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