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Using the mandriva seed script and mandriva 2010 beta i was able to create a bootable usb stick (unmounted sdb first) it looks like the manner in which the usb sticks are originally created has a lot to do with this, knowing this i will be using the seed for creation, i have not been able to successfully reuse sticks created that didnt work, ive tried using fdisk /dev/sdb and completely removing everything and recreating a FAT partition and then using mandriva seed, guess i will have to be really careful in the future.
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I tried again, this time closer to the wireless router and it succeeded. this can be closed.
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Yes. however a different stick, same manufacturer, I have three sticks that seem to work ok, I know it must have something to do with the partition structure, on the sticks that work I seem able to put other hybrid-isos on them too using the DD method, mandriva seed, image-writer and yes even net-booten however it seems to have issues with mandriva's iso and fails on it but not on others (shakes head) I have had to resort to labeling the sticks and what package i used to put the .iso on it.
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I have tried this on my other netbook and its working, so now a retest is in order, I burned the .iso to a CD and it is working from there, I do notice there are two menu selections the first is configure network, perhaps i tried the second first and thats why it was failing, i will have to review this....
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I just got the mcnlive-kris-rc1.iso and put it on a USB stick (with a method that works for me on netbooks) it booted fine and setup the wifi network with no issues. Great Job HighKing. tests all positive on the Acer Aspire One netbook.
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yes it is a bummer, thank you for reviewing this. I agree it does appear to be a bios issue with Acers Aspire One, at least with the ones i have.
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I should of added that MCN-live kris connects and worked the very first try, thats why i was surprised that mandriva 2010 beta didnt work, does your aspireone110 have the same wifi chipsets ? this error from drakconnect might give someone clues: /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 522. Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_view_set_cell_data: assertion `cell_view->priv->displayed_row != NULL' failed at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 522. Selected interface 'ath0'
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I am using MCN-live beta 3 to report my test with Mandriva 2010 Beta 1 , it booted from a USB stick i created with MandrivaÅ› seed, I had checked the md5sum before putting it on the stick. I tried using the configurator icon for network and wifi connections however it refused to located my essid, I tried once more using drakconnect but its basically the same program. I am attaching log files for review by those who might be interested. On MCN-live am using: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.12-desktop586-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Jan 26 02:59:40 EST 2010 i686 Intel® Atom CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz GNU/Linux relavent lspci for Network: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet Controller (rev b0) dmesg-mandriva-beta.txt drake-connect-errors.txt messages-mandriva-beta.txt syslog-mandriva-beta.txt
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I agree with your assessment. Its likely a bios issue however I have never flashed one and can really live with this knowing a work around exists. I have mcn live kris installed on it but the curiousness of this behavior led me to posting here. I thought perhaps its the cylinder boundary of 1024 that is known to cause issues and perhaps it is, the 1gb stick booted fine the others were 2gb and 4gb, I plan on getting new ones and testing my theory with using the seed script on them. The bios is set with a boot order of USB HD , USB flash, then Hard drive.
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Since this issue is so weird i am updating this thread. I have a Attache 1gb stick which i use regularly for different distros to test them but now am focused on this netbook not being able to boot. I dont know if its significant or not but here is a fdisk -l of the stick after using mandriva seed and putting the latest mandriva 2010 beta on it. The stick booted on the netbook, simply amazing. I used fdisk /dev/sdb and deleted the old and then created a new partition but this is the result... Disk /dev/sdb: 1007 MB, 1007681536 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 961 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0x2f83c158 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 676 676 1024 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: phys=(163, 63, 32) logical=(675, 63, 32) /dev/sdb2 * 1 675 691199+ 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS I tried Mcn-live beta 3 on this same stick and it works on the netbook too.....seems that using usb sticks on netbooks can be very picky.
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I got hold of a plug in micro-phone, it works now its a puzzle perhaps pulse audio can use the built-in mic but presently it is pointed at the mic jack input called "internal Audio Analog Stereo"
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Well on the netbook it just hangs and wont leave the bios boot screen until i remove the stick, but on the other desktops it boots right up to the mcn live grub screen where i can make selections as necessary, seems so silly it doesnt work on the netbook but next time i get a brand new stick (which happens at least once a month) i will try the trick of unmounted and the seed script, that script is very well written and looks really robust when compared to others attempts.
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I have a similar issue using MCN live kris however it uses mandriva 2010 but with Skype-2..1.0.81.tar.bz2 I extracted it and followed the README telling me where to put the files then I tried it as user, it seemed to work, normal skype sounds when dialing the test web site but no microphone, I looked at the options and noticed that it was being run by pulse audio, I had a similar issue with pulseaudio in a different distro and was able to disable it but have not found success in mandriva 2010, I know that once it was disabled i was able to use the mic. I have a ALC272 codec and alsa 1.0.20 driver
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i downloaded the "seed" from here: ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/official/iso/2010.0/mandriva-seed.sh in a terminal as root: sh mandriva-seed.sh mcnlive-kris-beta3.iso /dev/sdb The menu popped up and I selected the above iso, it showed that /dev/sdb was the device to be written, it completed successfully. I tried it on my Acer Aspire One D150 with booting from a powered down state, selecting F12 the screen just froze, it was unable to go forward with that stick in place. I removed the stick and tried it in my Emachine t6420, selected USB with F10 and it booted the mcnlive-kris-beta3.iso fine. from fdisk -l: Disk /dev/sdb: 2003 MB, 2003795968 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1910 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0xfa9acd3d Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 381 390143+ 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fdisk -l on a stick with beta2 but created by makeing sure it was not mounted. created using image-writer a usb stick creator and a brand new 2gb stick never having been used before. (when i get another new stick i will use seed in a similar fashion for comparison.) Disk /dev/sdb: 2000 MB, 2000682496 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1907 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Disk identifier: 0x6567d1a8 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 377 386047+ 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS They both appear to be very similar when it comes to start and end tracks..sigh, very strange they perform differently on that netbook. I have a 2nd netbook with windows only on it, i will try the sticks on it to see what happens but i think they have the same bios. again, I do not think this is related to mcnlive. thanks.
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No i havent, i wonder if you have to format before trying the seed, its one of the few programs i have not tried, good suggestion. I have just figured its something with the process of mounting or not but am at a loss why the strange part is that i can boot the stick on another machine, that suggests that the image is on it ok, just something with the files system, I saw a comment from fdisk which said that i was using more than 1024 cylinders and that it causes a problem with some bios's , perhaps thats it and maybe what happens if you do the process on a mounted stick, I just dont know. but i will try the seed and see.