2009-08-28, 04:57
Hi guys, I'm really not new to dealing with ISOs so it's a bit of a shock that I cannot get the 9.04.1 Live ISO to do anything on my diskless Zotac ION N330.
What I've tried:
Writing the ISO to three different USB thumb drives (using UNetBootin).
Writing the ISO to one SD card (again, using UNetBootin), and booting it from a USB SD reader.
Writing the ISO to a CDROM and booting to it on my main desktop.
Downloading the ISO to my Ubuntu 9.04 laptop and using the provided scripts to write an "installed" Live platform to a USB thumb drive.
What usually happens:
If no bootable partition is found, I am given a warning that says so, so I know the system is finding something..
Usually, GRUB fails to boot. If GRUB does boot, I can choose an option from the boot menu, get the XBMC throbbing usplash. usplash disappears and is replaced with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I can toggle through terminals with Ctrl+Alt+1-6, and terminal 1 responds to my keystrokes, but there's no prompt to interact with. I'm not sure how to get any more information from the system while it's in this state.
I figured my new Zotac board was going bonkers, or maybe it was freaking out because it couldn't find a HDD or something, but then I burned the CD and reproduced the behavior on both my Core2Duo desktop and my MSI Wind U100 netbook. Just to make completely sure that my Zotac build was sane, I did full install of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop. No issues.
Using the Install from ISO scripts provided in the .ZIP, I wrote an installation to a USB drive. Upon boot, this goes directly to a blinking cursor.
I tried so many different ways, I assumed the ISO was corrupted or something. I just downloaded the ISO once more and tried again. I get the same exact behavior on my new Zotac HTPC, my desktop and my netbook, all completely different platforms.
Looking at the forums, I see the image has worked for other people. Am I doing something wrong, or is SourceForge replicating a corrupted image across the mirrors?
Help!
What I've tried:
Writing the ISO to three different USB thumb drives (using UNetBootin).
Writing the ISO to one SD card (again, using UNetBootin), and booting it from a USB SD reader.
Writing the ISO to a CDROM and booting to it on my main desktop.
Downloading the ISO to my Ubuntu 9.04 laptop and using the provided scripts to write an "installed" Live platform to a USB thumb drive.
What usually happens:
If no bootable partition is found, I am given a warning that says so, so I know the system is finding something..
Usually, GRUB fails to boot. If GRUB does boot, I can choose an option from the boot menu, get the XBMC throbbing usplash. usplash disappears and is replaced with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I can toggle through terminals with Ctrl+Alt+1-6, and terminal 1 responds to my keystrokes, but there's no prompt to interact with. I'm not sure how to get any more information from the system while it's in this state.
I figured my new Zotac board was going bonkers, or maybe it was freaking out because it couldn't find a HDD or something, but then I burned the CD and reproduced the behavior on both my Core2Duo desktop and my MSI Wind U100 netbook. Just to make completely sure that my Zotac build was sane, I did full install of Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop. No issues.
Using the Install from ISO scripts provided in the .ZIP, I wrote an installation to a USB drive. Upon boot, this goes directly to a blinking cursor.
I tried so many different ways, I assumed the ISO was corrupted or something. I just downloaded the ISO once more and tried again. I get the same exact behavior on my new Zotac HTPC, my desktop and my netbook, all completely different platforms.
Looking at the forums, I see the image has worked for other people. Am I doing something wrong, or is SourceForge replicating a corrupted image across the mirrors?
Help!