02-18-2018, 06:34 AM
So I followed the link that rokythji gave about using forcepae -- forcepae and it worked!
Initially I got a very distorted solitary linux feather with some horizontal lines across the bottom of the screen (sort of pixelated) then it booted into LL 3.4 and albeit slow it "appears" to work fine and the WiFi works.
I then shut it down and re-started and despite putting in the double forcepae I am brought to the original screen whereby I'd need to hit tab then put in the forcepae -- forcepae again.
My main questions are -
1) now that LL 3.4 does show to work "live" am I ok to install?
2) BEFORE I hit install should I be doing what GoldFinger suggested in the PAE thread from 2015:
(here it is below - I don't know how to do the quotes that I see in other posts (in a greenish box):
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From Gold Finger -
I was unaware of this change until now with your post. My take on it is the same as yours. It sounds like if you do "forcepae -- forcepae" during bootup of live DVD, that will ensure that the install will automatically have the forcepae boot parameter active and you shouldn't need to do anything more. If that's true, then that certainly makes life easier. I can't confirm that for you though, because I don't have any computers that need forcepae.
If that doesn't work, then you'd need to use forcepae on first bootup of the installed system. Once in, you'd then open the grub file under /etc/default directory and add the option there. Open it with your text editor as root with this command:
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gksu leafpad /etc/default/grub
In the text file that opens up, find the line
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
And change it to this
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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash forcepae"
Save the file, close text editor.
Enter this in terminal to update grub
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sudo update-grub
Change should now be permanent on reboots.
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3) IF I do erase and load LL 3.4 having done the forcepae -- forcepae will this computer then act normally and update normally like other older computers that have had LL 3.4 loaded? I'm asking as once I wipe Win XP off this computer I really don't want to have to go through the blood, sweat and tears of re-loading Win XP and all the drivers
Initially I got a very distorted solitary linux feather with some horizontal lines across the bottom of the screen (sort of pixelated) then it booted into LL 3.4 and albeit slow it "appears" to work fine and the WiFi works.
I then shut it down and re-started and despite putting in the double forcepae I am brought to the original screen whereby I'd need to hit tab then put in the forcepae -- forcepae again.
My main questions are -
1) now that LL 3.4 does show to work "live" am I ok to install?
2) BEFORE I hit install should I be doing what GoldFinger suggested in the PAE thread from 2015:
(here it is below - I don't know how to do the quotes that I see in other posts (in a greenish box):
__________________
From Gold Finger -
I was unaware of this change until now with your post. My take on it is the same as yours. It sounds like if you do "forcepae -- forcepae" during bootup of live DVD, that will ensure that the install will automatically have the forcepae boot parameter active and you shouldn't need to do anything more. If that's true, then that certainly makes life easier. I can't confirm that for you though, because I don't have any computers that need forcepae.
If that doesn't work, then you'd need to use forcepae on first bootup of the installed system. Once in, you'd then open the grub file under /etc/default directory and add the option there. Open it with your text editor as root with this command:
Code: [Select]
gksu leafpad /etc/default/grub
In the text file that opens up, find the line
Code: [Select]
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
And change it to this
Code: [Select]
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash forcepae"
Save the file, close text editor.
Enter this in terminal to update grub
Code: [Select]
sudo update-grub
Change should now be permanent on reboots.
__________
3) IF I do erase and load LL 3.4 having done the forcepae -- forcepae will this computer then act normally and update normally like other older computers that have had LL 3.4 loaded? I'm asking as once I wipe Win XP off this computer I really don't want to have to go through the blood, sweat and tears of re-loading Win XP and all the drivers