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On 21/12/12 08:22, George Parker wrote: > Success!! Thanks bad Apple for your persistence. > > Setting the SATA to AHCI did the trick and I was able to boot from a > Mint 13 64 bit CD. The USB settings were set OK and I tried it on the > USB with no joy. It still dumps me into BusyBox. I'll burn Mint 14 > to a CD and try that. > > The distro has a 'compatibility' mode which has "nosplash noacpi > noapic" but, critically, has no "nomodeset". Running compatibility > mode without the nomodeset does not work, but add nomodeset and I'm > looking at a LinuxMint desktop. > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/15425/unable-to-find-a-medium-containing-a-live-file-system-error-when-installing > > > This post mentions USB and setting SATA to AHCI (which I couldn't find > first time round) > > http://www.overclock.net/t/720622/unable-to-find-a-medium-containing-a-live-file-system > > This contains the reference to SATA 3 and 6 > > Again, thanks to everyone, and the very entertaining side-track into > Debian. > > George > You're welcome... I knew we'd get there in the end! I think the problem is as much unetbootin as anything else - it doesn't do a very good job of converting ISOs into a bootable system quite often. The HP thumbdrive utility does a better job but is windows only. You're going to need to make some post-install modifications to your grub setup as well as making sure you've got a modern fglrx installed so if you run into any more problems then just ask for help. Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq