11.4 GNOME x32 fails to boot livecd image on Acer Aspire One Happy

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Hello Everyone,

I am trying to boot livecd image on my Acer Aspire One Happy and see if it works. Unfortunately it does not. It seems like it fails to load due to alsa bugs, I have several pictures attached. Please excuse me for quality, it was taken by the phone.

You can see pictures here: pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4.

Specifications of Acer Aspire One Happy is the following (in French)

Fabricant du Processeur Intel
Type de Processeur Atom
Référence du Processeur N550
Vitesse du Processeur 1.50 GHz
Nombre de Cœur(s) du Processeur Dual Core
Cache 1Mo
Traitement 64-bit Oui
Hyper-Threading Oui
Fabricant du Chipset Intel
Référence du Chipset NM10 Express

Mémoire 1Go
Technologie de la Mémoire DDR3 SDRAM
Norme de la Mémoire DDR3-1066/PC3-8500
Nombre Total de Slots Mémoire 1
Lecteur de Carte Mémoire Oui
Type de Carte Mémoire MultimediaCard (MMC)
SD

Capacité du Disque Dur 250Go
Interface du Disque Dur Serial ATA
Vitesse du Disque Dur (tr/mn) 5400
Type de Disque Optique Non
Lecteur Optique Non applicable

Taille d’Ecran 25.7 cm (10.1")
Type d’Ecran Ecran LCD TFT à Matrice Active
Mode d’Ecran WSVGA
Résolution Graphique 1024 x 600
Technologie d’Affichage LED
Carte TV Non

Wi-Fi Oui
Norme Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/g/n
Technologie Ethernet Fast Ethernet
Bluetooth Oui
Norme Bluetooth Bluetooth 3.0

Webcam Oui
Microphone Oui
Lecteur d’Empreinte Digitale Non

Norme USB USB 2.0
Nombre de Ports USB 3
VGA Oui
Réseau (RJ45) Oui

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I decided to try the same image on my desk computer where I never had problems with live cd 11.3, here is what I am observing with 11.4 GNOME x32:

white noise

Worth to mention that I have no problems on this PC with Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora.

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Try downloading and burning another live dvd

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Actually, I did it twice. It is not a problem of media, as you can see from first series of screenshots, the kernel actually is booting, but then panic is fired off.

I’d expect more technical suggestions here and not “have you tried to switch it off and on” (from It Crowd TV Series).

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Some times the obvious can be overlooked. Only trying to help.

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Thanks!

I am continuing investigation. Just tried the openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0072-i686.iso from distrowatch article Development Release: openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 2 (DistroWatch.com News), and it seems to fail with the same problem. I guess, whatever problem is, it is migrating from 11.4 to 12.1 as well.

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Your “whitescreen noise” is the result of an improper graphics driver. On the
GRUB Boot Options line, type “nomodeset”.

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Its up to you and it depends how much you have on your lap top, but if it was me I would save what I needed onto another pc, memory stick or whatever and do I completely new install from full disc rather than trying to boot from a live cd. Its up to you but it would give you a nice fresh installation.

cheers

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Thanks for the tip! Now I passed that stage, and it stucks with INIT ld “4” respawning too fast: screenshot.

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Thank you for the idea. The problem is that I am using Debian 6, and I was wondering if I can try live cd with OpenSUSE before moving from Debian to OpenSUSE. If I am not sure it boots in livecd, I can finally end up with installed OpenSUSE which does not boot either :slight_smile:

In any case, I can play in VirtualBox, but it’s different …