[SOLVED] Mint Mate 32-bit Impossible to install from USB, hangs with boot prompt and "SYSLINUX" message

rm_-rf_windows · 09-02-2017, 06:00 AM

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

Keruskerfuerst · 09-02-2017, 06:18 AM

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

rm_-rf_windows · 09-02-2017, 06:26 AM

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

rm_-rf_windows · 09-02-2017, 11:08 AM

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

rm_-rf_windows · 09-02-2017, 11:09 AM

Extensible Firmware Interface?

Keruskerfuerst · 09-02-2017, 01:52 PM

EFI is extensible firmware interface.

!!! · 09-02-2017, 09:55 PM

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.

aragorn2101 · 09-04-2017, 03:46 AM

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/

rm_-rf_windows · 09-09-2017, 07:29 AM

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

rm_-rf_windows · 09-09-2017, 07:37 AM

New clue.
In addition to the original message:

Quote:

Additional message when trying from Lubuntu:

Quote:

Missing parameter in configuration file

rm_-rf_windows · 09-09-2017, 08:32 AM

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

rm_-rf_windows · 09-09-2017, 05:14 PM

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!