Linux mint LMDE 6 32bit booting unreliable
by doremifa from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6KXA1)
Hello! I am new to linux installation (except that I have some raspberry piis).
I got an old desktop PC with Win 7 from my friend who passed away recently (85). 32bit, 4GB RAM, 3GHz x2 CPU, 500GB Hard drive. Just installed Linux mint LMDE 6. But it doesnit boot stably: about 40 % success rate. it says initial something ramdisk, and then the cursor blinks at top left corner: it seems to have been a common issue about 10 years ago. I found, for example,
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/842
I tried to add vga=791 before iquiet splashi, and/or i915.modeset=0 after that, and tried also a few other things, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. So I took that away.
However, I discovered that in recovery mode, it does boot 100% so far. So I don't understand what's wrong, why it doesn't boot in normal mode reliably.
I will appreciate if someone could tell me what I should do. Or, perhaps I should go for a different linux, if so, I will appreciate suggestions as to what I should go for. This PC will be used by a few people for typing, email-writing, etc. It should be user-friendly for normal people. Compatibility with a Konica printer will be nice.
I wanted to post this question to linux mint forum, but I was not able to get onto chat in order to get the registration code.
I got an old desktop PC with Win 7 from my friend who passed away recently (85). 32bit, 4GB RAM, 3GHz x2 CPU, 500GB Hard drive. Just installed Linux mint LMDE 6. But it doesnit boot stably: about 40 % success rate. it says initial something ramdisk, and then the cursor blinks at top left corner: it seems to have been a common issue about 10 years ago. I found, for example,
https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/842
I tried to add vga=791 before iquiet splashi, and/or i915.modeset=0 after that, and tried also a few other things, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. So I took that away.
However, I discovered that in recovery mode, it does boot 100% so far. So I don't understand what's wrong, why it doesn't boot in normal mode reliably.
I will appreciate if someone could tell me what I should do. Or, perhaps I should go for a different linux, if so, I will appreciate suggestions as to what I should go for. This PC will be used by a few people for typing, email-writing, etc. It should be user-friendly for normal people. Compatibility with a Konica printer will be nice.
I wanted to post this question to linux mint forum, but I was not able to get onto chat in order to get the registration code.