[mythtv-users] I've had a really bad moment here

Saul A. Peebsen jaglover at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 22:21:07 UTC 2013


On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:48:38 -0500
Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Saul A. Peebsen
> > <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote: ....
> >> Some PC-Windows combos came with TPM enabled, a friend of mine had
> >> a laptop that didn't boot anything but Windows.
> >
> > I suspect you actually mean UEFI secure boot.  Depending
> > on your vendor, disabling secure boot, or adding the linux
> > keys, can be an interesting exercise.
> 
> But unlikely to be relevant here.  This would have caused a failure
> long before Ubuntu could issue an "unable to find a medium containing
> a live file system" error.

Alright, I missed that. It means the kernel is booted but it has no
support for controller the optical drive is connected to. Some cheat
code passed to the kernel at boot time might fix it.

-- 
Cheers, Saul


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