▲ Post: #1 ▼

Hi there!
Have had some problems installing Pinguy onto my laptop.

Have burnt the iso onto a DVD and booting off the DVD.

It goes to a boot screen but whatever I select, the bootup fails.

It seems to hang when dealing with any USB device in my laptop. I see the following types of messages:
--"Attached SCSI removable disk"
--"unexpected exit with status"
--"Bad EIP value"

--I saw the SCSI removable disk error above, so I removed the USB key I had plugged in.
--Then there was an error about a USB card reader, so I removed that.
--Then there is an errors about a USB connected firewire interface. (I can't remove this because it's inside the laptop.)

So it's like it's failing on each USB device plugged in.

Previously I've had installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint and a couple of others without any probs.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Cheers,
Ben

▲ Post: #2 ▼

try using the acpi=off option

▲ Post: #3 ▼

Thanks very much for your post. Setting that option did get past the hanging during installation. And the installation went smoothly.

However pinguy now encounters the same hanging problem during boot up. Starting up in "recovery" mode I can see its stopping at the same place.

Any further advice would be greatly appreciated.

▲ Post: #4 ▼

Hi,

in recovery mode; run "dpkg" which should fix any damaged packages you have. You may have to run "fsck" first before you can run "dpkg".

Regards Wolfman

▲ Post: #5 ▼

Thanks wolfman,
Unfortunately I cannot boot up in recovery mode because it is hanging with the same conditions that I encountered when I first tried to install pinguy.

When I boot in normal non-recovery pinguy I see an error: "udevd-work [159]: '/sbin/modprobe -bv pci:v000010D...biglonghexnumber...' unexpected exit with status 0x0009

Cheers,
Ben

▲ Post: #6 ▼

Hi Ben,

if you did not burn the ISO at the slowest possible speed, you would have read/write errors, I reckon if you burn the DVD again at the slowest possible speed, you should be good to go!!.

Regards Wolfman

▲ Post: #7 ▼

Benjwarner ,

You have to make sure the acpi=off every time


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