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Author Topic: Live CD Booting Question - Is there a Safe Mode?  (Read 1785 times)

websterhamster

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Live CD Booting Question - Is there a Safe Mode?
« on: December 23, 2011, 10:50:48 am »
Hi there,

I'm new to VL, and I was trying to boot it Live on an older Dell laptop. No matter what I do, it always ends up with some sort of failure at acpi, and then shows a pile of hex codes and whatnot that perhaps a nerdier person would understand. ::)

I had a similar problem when I first booted Mageia Live, but that was solved by booting in "safe mode", which excluded acpi, I guess. Is there any way to do that with VL?

Thanks very much,

websterhamster
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nightflier

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Re: Live CD Booting Question - Is there a Safe Mode?
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2011, 11:53:30 am »
When the boot menu appears, press the Tab key. It should give you an editable line. Add your options to it, like acpi=off vga=normal etc.
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websterhamster

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Re: Live CD Booting Question - Is there a Safe Mode?
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2011, 12:46:57 pm »
Thanks for the help!

I added acpi=off to the command, and it worked, until it got to the following line:

[     1.392563]  fnic: Cisco FCoE HBA Driver, ver 1.5.0.1

Does this mean my computer is incompatible with this driver, or can I skip it?

Thanks for answering my questions, I'm obviously still learning Linux!

~WH
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