06-22-2017, 10:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2017, 05:47 PM by smhardesty.)
I hope this is the correct place to post this problem. I'm attempting to install Linux Lite 3.4 64 Bit on my wife's laptop. It is a Lenovo B50-45. Hardware is an AMD A6-6310 APU, 4 GiB RAM, with AMD Radeon R4 Graphics. The hard drive is 500GiB and she has absolutely nothing saved on it. Her main use is email and some Internet surfing.
I'm sure the problem I'm having is actually related to the stupid UEFI. I say I'm sure, but I guess if I was sure I'd have solved the problem. Anyway, I have tried both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Lite, WattOS, and Xubuntu installs. The exact same problem occurs with each of the different distros. The laptop doesn't have an optical drive so I'm attempting to install from a USB stick. I have created the Live stick using both MintStick and UNetBootin. I never even get the Live stick running. It locates the USB stick, gives me the first splash screen with options to boot live, boot in safe mode, etc, then with Lite I get the yellow splash screen with the feather on it for approx 45 seconds, then that leaves and I have a black screen with command line messages.
The first message that pops up is: (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
Then there are 5 errors and the final message is: [ 158.248149] usb usb3-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
Then it just hangs there. I have tried different settings in the BIOS, or UEFI, or whatever it's called now. I know that at some point I was able to figure the thing out because it's running Mint 17.3 Rosa right now. I'm sure I wouldn't have changed any settings in the BIOS between the last time I loaded Mint and now so I should have been able to load a Live stick now. Maybe it's in the way I'm creating the USB stick. I format the stick before every time I write an image to it. And the stick loads up just fine on the G50-45 that I use.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm sure open to any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
I'm sure the problem I'm having is actually related to the stupid UEFI. I say I'm sure, but I guess if I was sure I'd have solved the problem. Anyway, I have tried both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Lite, WattOS, and Xubuntu installs. The exact same problem occurs with each of the different distros. The laptop doesn't have an optical drive so I'm attempting to install from a USB stick. I have created the Live stick using both MintStick and UNetBootin. I never even get the Live stick running. It locates the USB stick, gives me the first splash screen with options to boot live, boot in safe mode, etc, then with Lite I get the yellow splash screen with the feather on it for approx 45 seconds, then that leaves and I have a black screen with command line messages.
The first message that pops up is: (initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system
Then there are 5 errors and the final message is: [ 158.248149] usb usb3-port1: unable to enumerate USB device
Then it just hangs there. I have tried different settings in the BIOS, or UEFI, or whatever it's called now. I know that at some point I was able to figure the thing out because it's running Mint 17.3 Rosa right now. I'm sure I wouldn't have changed any settings in the BIOS between the last time I loaded Mint and now so I should have been able to load a Live stick now. Maybe it's in the way I'm creating the USB stick. I format the stick before every time I write an image to it. And the stick loads up just fine on the G50-45 that I use.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm sure open to any suggestions. Thanks in advance.
Steve
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