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ASUS EeePC 1005PE: Impossible to install Linux from USB, hangs with boot prompt and "SYSLINUX" message

Hi all,

I'm in the process of trying to install Mint Mate from USB on my Asus EeePC 1005PE and get an error message (I can't even use the live version). I get the following message which hangs on boot from USB:

Quote:

...with a prompt "boot:"

The version I'm trying to install is linuxmint-18-mate-32bit.iso from USB.

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450, 2GB RAM

Here's some more info:

Code:

user@user-laptop:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

processor    : 0

vendor_id    : GenuineIntel

cpu family    : 6

model        : 28

model name    : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450  @ 1.66GHz

stepping    : 10

cpu MHz        : 1000.000

cache size    : 512 KB

physical id    : 0

siblings    : 2

core id        : 0

cpu cores    : 1

apicid        : 0

initial apicid    : 0

fdiv_bug    : no

hlt_bug        : no

f00f_bug    : no

coma_bug    : no

fpu        : yes

fpu_exception    : yes

cpuid level    : 10

wp        : yes

flags        : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm

bogomips    : 3333.07

clflush size    : 64

cache_alignment    : 64

address sizes    : 32 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

power management:



processor    : 1

vendor_id    : GenuineIntel

cpu family    : 6

model        : 28

model name    : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N450  @ 1.66GHz

stepping    : 10

cpu MHz        : 1000.000

cache size    : 512 KB

physical id    : 0

siblings    : 2

core id        : 0

cpu cores    : 1

apicid        : 1

initial apicid    : 1

fdiv_bug    : no

hlt_bug        : no

f00f_bug    : no

coma_bug    : no

fpu        : yes

fpu_exception    : yes

cpuid level    : 10

wp        : yes

flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm

bogomips    : 3332.92

clflush size    : 64

cache_alignment    : 64

address sizes    : 32 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

power management:



user@user-laptop:~$ cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:        2052100 kB

MemFree:          924068 kB

Buffers:          154108 kB

Cached:          599048 kB

SwapCached:            0 kB

Active:          430324 kB

Inactive:        630292 kB

Active(anon):    332424 kB

Inactive(anon):  124320 kB

Active(file):      97900 kB

Inactive(file):  505972 kB

Unevictable:          48 kB

Mlocked:              48 kB

HighTotal:      1178184 kB

HighFree:        254820 kB

LowTotal:        873916 kB

LowFree:          669248 kB

SwapTotal:            0 kB

SwapFree:              0 kB

Dirty:              104 kB

Writeback:            0 kB

AnonPages:        307536 kB

Mapped:          166208 kB

Shmem:            149284 kB

Slab:              32256 kB

SReclaimable:      16576 kB

SUnreclaim:        15680 kB

KernelStack:        2568 kB

PageTables:        9572 kB

NFS_Unstable:          0 kB

Bounce:                0 kB

WritebackTmp:          0 kB

CommitLimit:    1026048 kB

Committed_AS:    2001256 kB

VmallocTotal:    122880 kB

VmallocUsed:      22608 kB

VmallocChunk:      92892 kB

HardwareCorrupted:    0 kB

HugePages_Total:      0

HugePages_Free:        0

HugePages_Rsvd:        0

HugePages_Surp:        0

Hugepagesize:      4096 kB

DirectMap4k:      16376 kB

DirectMap4M:      892928 kB

Thanks in advance,

RM

Can you try to install from USB/DVD without EFI?

Sorry, don't know what EFI is.
It's a Netbook, so no DVD installation possible.

Engineer, Furnish and Install?
Still don't know what you mean...

Extensible Firmware Interface?

EFI is extensible firmware interface.

Couple wild-guesses: improperly burned usb? How did you create it?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=90663
2008-9, so not uefi luckily;) Yup, probably bad usb 'burn'.

TMI digging:
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2043820
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-stick-870921/
Try this web-search: syslinux hang at boot prompt
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1961...slinux-message
Does boot: respond to a <tab> ? Anything echo? Probably not/dead, in this case.

The problem might be that the 32-bit is not working due to UEFI boot, which works only with 64-bit. Can you please try 64-bit?

And, you can use Rufus for creating USB. I think it is more reliable: https://rufus.akeo.ie/

I've changed the title of this post from "Mint Mate 32-bit Impossible to install from USB, hangs with boot prompt and "SYSLINUX" message" to "ASUS EeePC 1005PE: Impossible.." because I've tried again with 64-bit Xfce version of mate as well as Lubuntu and on 3 different pendrives.

Nothing seems to be working these days (see all of my recent posts!)

Any other ideas?

RM

New clue.
In addition to the original message:

Quote:

Additional message when trying from Lubuntu:

Quote:

Missing parameter in configuration file

Just to clarify, it doesn't seem to be a problem specific to Mint, but rather to Asus EeePC 1005PE and Debian/Linux version.

Initial problem solved, but still a problem with installation.
I simply typed in "help" and got a list of help commands F1, F2, etc. and then a boot prompt that said press "Enter" to boot... and it did.
I got the live version of Lubuntu.
I didn't try the same with mint, but I imagine it would be the same.
Errors during installation, impossible to install...
The challenge continues!