Live USB made from linuxmint-10-lxde-cd-i386.iso does not boot

[World Awry]

Downloaded the last LM 10 LXDE iso, put it onto USB stick via UNetbootin. So when I try to boot from it, it says:
"(initramfs) Unable to find a medium containing a live file system".

It was a SONY Vaio VPCX111KD netbook with Win7, Atom Z550, 2Gb, 64Gb SSD.

When I'm trying to boot with this stick on my DELL D610, everything is OK.

One more funny thing - Live USB with OpenSUSE on Sony gives almost the same message, but Puppy Linux boots just fine and works smoothly.

[Vikki Roemer (compgrokker)]

Try using the Ubuntu usb tools listed here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick . I had issues with mint/peppermint on my netbook if I used unetbootin instead of those.

Hope that helps.

[World Awry (worldawry)]

Actually I've located the problem with this particular Vaio. It has PATA SSD, but Mint does not have the appropriate driver for it.

[World Awry (worldawry)]

But where to get the needed driver and how to put the driver onto LiveUSB... I have no idea.

[Vikki Roemer (compgrokker)]

Can you paste the chipset info from lshw or a similar tool here so it can be built into the next release, if nothing else?

Thanks.

[World Awry (worldawry)]

The needed driver is "pata_sch". How can I add it to the distro?

[Vikki Roemer (compgrokker)]

That's all I needed, it's been assigned to a dev to be added to the next release.

Not sure how to add it to the current distro short of downloading the kernel sources, compiling that driver against mint's kernel, and re-rolling the iso. Sorry I can't be more help. :(

[World Awry (worldawry)]

Ok, anyway thanks for your help, Vikki!

Next release... You mean the next release after the LM11K_RC? Or it's going to be, if it's really going to be, in LM12?

[World Awry (worldawry)]

BTW, found another distro which supports this VAIO out-of-the-box. It's Fedora.

[Vikki Roemer (compgrokker)]

I'm really not sure, I'll ask one of the devs tonight. :\ Actually having the name of the module *really* helps though, and should make its addition to Mint go along faster. :) Thanks again for looking into that. I'll ask around about when you can expect support and get back to you.

[World Awry (worldawry)]

Well, no problem. Here you are an output of lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) (rev 06)
 Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 905f
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 905f
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at 94200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
 Region 1: I/O ports at 6070 [size=8]
 Region 2: Memory at 80000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 3: Memory at 94280000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
 Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) HD Audio Controller (rev 06)
 Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 905f
 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19
 Region 0: Memory at 942c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
 Memory behind bridge: 93100000-941fffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 90000000-90ffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
  PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00004fff
 Memory behind bridge: 92000000-930fffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 91000000-91ffffff
 Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
 BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR...

[World Awry (worldawry)]

And here is an output of lshw:

localhost.localdomain
    description: Notebook
    product: VPCX111KD (N/A)
    vendor: Sony Corporation
    version: J003YA18
    serial: 27503742-3000062
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=VAIO sku=N/A uuid=C1BE45B0-BC65-11DE-9ABC-001DBABD5C59
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: VAIO
       vendor: Sony Corporation
       physical id: 0
       version: N/A
       serial: N/A
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: INSYDE
          physical id: 0
          version: R0084U4
          date: 12/17/2009
          size: 1MiB
          capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd int9keyboard int10video acpi usb smartbattery biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z550 @ 2.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 8
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 6.12.2
          serial: 0001-06C2-0000-0000-0000-0000
          slot: N/A
          size: 2GHz
          capacity: 2GHz
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 133MHz
          capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp 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 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority cpufreq
          configuration: id=0
        *-cache:0
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 9
             slot: L2 Cache
             size: 512KiB
             capacity: 512KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified
        *-cache:1
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: a
             slot: L1 Cache
             size: 56KiB
             capacity: 56KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
        *-logicalcpu:0
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.1
             width: 32 bits
             capabilities: logical
        *-logicalcpu:1
             description: Logical CPU
             physical id: 0.2
             width: 32 bits
             capabilities: logical
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: b
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 2GiB
        *-bank
             description: SODIMM DDR2
             physical id: 0
             slot: Onboard
             size: 2GiB
             width: 64 bits
     *-pci
          description: Host bridge
          product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo)
          vendor: Intel Corporation
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: 06
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
        *-display UNCLAIMED
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: System Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
             version: 06
             width: 32 bits
             cl...

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

Does this bug apply to any of the currently supported releases (i.e. Maya, Nadia, Olivia, or Petra)? If not, this bug should be closed.

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

No reply from OP - closing the bug report as no longer applicable.
Please re-raise if this affects a currently supported release (Maya, Petra or Qiana)