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#1 2018-12-21 16:35:57
- kuleszdl
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[Solved] LiveCD fails to boot, spams consoles with "Auth failure"
Hi,
I tried booting the Devuan live amd64 livecd image on a few older Thinkpads (X200, T400s etc.) but the screen stays black and all console are spammed with "Authentication failure". Image used:
devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_desktop-live.iso
Is this a known issue?
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#2 2018-12-21 18:42:54
- fsmithred
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Re: [Solved] LiveCD fails to boot, spams consoles with "Auth failure"
It's not a known issue. That iso should work on hardware as new as yours. (2008?)
How far into the boot do you get?
Make sure the boot command contains 'username=devuan'.
Maybe try adding 'nomodeset' to the boot command. (That might be in the failsafe entry, which you should also try.)
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#3 2018-12-21 23:52:27
- kuleszdl
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Re: [Solved] LiveCD fails to boot, spams consoles with "Auth failure"
Many thanks, adding username=devuan actually did the trick! Indeed, I booted it manually from (my own) GRUB, but I could sweat I've seen this issue as well when using the regular syslinux loader that starts up from the liveCD.
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#4 2018-12-22 00:05:48
- kuleszdl
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Re: [Solved] LiveCD fails to boot, spams consoles with "Auth failure"
Similar symptom but different failure: I was able to reproduce the "black screen" issue on a X200t running the Lenovo factory BIOS, but in this case I can't switch to the console as the screen stays all black. Failsafe and nomodeset do not help either. Double-checked with the T400s and another X200, but there it seems to work fine. So only the X200t seems to be affected so far.
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#5 2018-12-22 01:29:57
- fsmithred
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Re: [Solved] LiveCD fails to boot, spams consoles with "Auth failure"
The failsafe entry in the syslinux boot menu is missing 'username=devuan'. I checked the amd64 so far. It's probably the same in the i386. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. If/when we do a point release, I'll fix it. (And in beowulf, too.)
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