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

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Sat Nov 16 21:35:03 UTC 2013


On 11/15/13 10:33 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Stephen P. Villano
> <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/14/13 5:21 PM, Saul A. Peebsen wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> Thanks all.
>> I found the issue. The BIOS was set for Windows, setting it to "other"
>> did the trick.
>> That will teach me to set BIOS without my reading glasses on!
> Funnily enough I have just installed to a second hand HP server with a
> 64bit mythbuntu 12.04 dvd that I found in an unlabelled stack of DVDs.
> Worked first time. The 32 bit one booted too, just long enough to
> establish it was the 32 bit version and reboot.
>
> Now to find that black fine tip 'sharpie' felt tipped pen so I can
> label them. "Children, report here!"
> _______________________________________________
>
My BE is on a Dell 2850, running 64 bit flawlessly.
My new FE for upstairs is on my older Acer, running 64 bit. Still have
some tweaks to make, but otherwise working great.
My only complaint with the older Acer mini-tower is that it doesn't have
optical out for my surround sound system, but that isn't a biggie and is
trivial to upgrade the sound card later.  :)


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