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Zorin 9 will not boot from hard drive

saxon

Thu Sep 24, 2015 6:57:49 am

Just installed Zorin 9 Core 32bit onto a clean hard drive from a usb. After loading all the files and asking me to restart, which I did, it asks me for my password the password seems to be accepted, the screen goes dark and no boot. The bios is set to 1st boot from hhd.

Hope somebody can help,
Saxon

Swarfendor437

Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:55:41 am

Hi, Please can you download the manual and see if that helps? At end of lunch break! ;) :D

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9512

saxon

Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:36:40 pm

Hi Swarfendor,
Had a look on the manual and done everything on the installation. When I put my password in (page 15) that's as far as I get the screen goes blank and the desktop does not load.
Cheers Saxon

Swarfendor437

Thu Oct 01, 2015 8:39:39 pm

Hi, you did not decide to encrypt your /home folder at point of install did you? ;) :D

saxon

Sat Oct 03, 2015 7:10:35 am

Hi,
No just tried it and made sure it worked and then installed.

Swarfendor437

Sat Oct 03, 2015 12:43:23 pm

HI, can you give us the spec of your machine, in particular graphics card/chipset? :D

saxon

Sat Oct 03, 2015 5:57:30 pm

memory 494.3 MiB
intel Pentium(R) 4CPU 2.40GHz
graphics nv11 x86/MMX/SSE2
os type 32-bit
disk 491.6GB

Swarfendor437

Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:08:27 pm

Hi, I suspect your notebook does not have sufficient RAM (memory). You should try Zorin Life instead. :D

saxon

Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:41:53 am

Hi,
It has, to be exact 2 sticks of 128mb. On the zorin spec it gives 512mb of ram as being acceptable for older machines.
Many thanks for all your help.
Saxon

saxon

Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:51:55 am

Hi,
Forgot to mention, when I first downloaded Zorin 9 I tried it before installing and noticed I had no sound at all. If I do install Lite and if still no sound what would I have to do to get sound?

Swarfendor437

Sun Oct 04, 2015 10:21:23 am

Check Wolfman's guide to Lite here:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4835