problems with live/boot cd

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Husse

Re: problems with live/boot cd

Post by Husse »

This may be a tricky error...
First - have you checked the md5sum and burned slowly. It may well be a bad CD
Second - do you have a Broadcom wifi chip? This is an error to do with the firmware/driver of bcm43xx
If your CD is OK we may have to be a bit geeky to solve the problem
Boot into recovery mode with the live cd. To do that, press F6 when you see the first splash
Delete "quiet splash --" at the line that appears and add "ro single" (no quotes)
Then start the boot - you will end up in Recovery mode as root
In here you will have to do some editing - it's not as hard as it seems, but if you are not used to a pure CLI environment it's a bit strange. Do the following (sudo not needed)
nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
(Use the arrow keys to navigate)
Last in the file add
blacklist bcm43xx
Now continue - type
exit
(All commands in CLI to be followed by "Enter")
This should stop the driver from being loaded and boot should succeed
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Husse

Re: problems with live/boot cd

Post by Husse »

This is a live CD - you can't save anything....
You have to follow the guide I wrote each time
If you have the monitor out of sync there's things to about that too
Husse

Re: problems with live/boot cd

Post by Husse »

My first post describes how to - hopefully - fix this by blacklisting the driver so you can boot normally
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