PC does not find correctly installed VSIDO

[EL SID]

Hi to all : I got two PC's to practise and experiment with VSIDO, latest iso from april 8. On a Lenovo ThinkCentre M57p, after the installation the system did not start up. After some tweaking and resetting the BIOS, it works perfectly. On a Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 ( lspci output see below) no amount of tweaking could make VSIDO start, I just saw a black screen. Then I installed Debian 7 netinstall, it worked from the start. Can anyone tell me where the problem resides ? Thanks !
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 HECI Controller (rev 02)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HO (ICH8DO) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02)
02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101/6102 single-port PATA133 interface (rev b1)
06:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx]

[jedi]

Howdy El Sid!  It looks like from you lspci output on the 6600 that it has "integrated graphics".  Does this mean that it has 2 video cards, or just that it is using the onboard Intel graphics chipset?  I'll have to assume that it is simply the Intel graphics as your lspci isn't listing a second 'card'.  There are a couple things I'd try;
First when it boots, hit the letter 'e' when you get to Grub and edit it.  It should look something like the following;


set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 6b67fed8-816a-4315-89d3-86e3bd6ad4ab
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 6b67fed8-816a-4315-89d3-86e3bd6ad4ab
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.7-trunk-amd64 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.7-trunk-amd64 root=UUID=6b67fed8-816a-4315-89d3-86e3bd6ad4ab ro acpi=noirq quiet no splash
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.7-trunk-amd64


The stuff highlighted in red can be changed to all manner of things to get it to boot right.  On the above example, acpi=noirq and no splash were the additions on mine that made that particular laptop work.  "Quiet" was already there.  You could also try 'nomodeset'.  Thats just a quick couple of ideas off the top of my head.  Do a quick google search for "editing grub boot entries" and you'll find a lot to experiment with!

Hope that helps...

[EL SID]

Hi Jedi, thanks a lot for the help. I will study it and give it another shot. Have a nice weekend EL SID

[EL SID]

There is no additional video card. I will try your advice asap. Thanks again.

[lizbeth]

Did grub install?  I am having problems with grub on my system