Installation on Asus G551V

[bigor]

Have anyone successfully installed Maui 1 on Asus G551VW ?

I can't get live image from usb stick to even start, I get this error:
/init: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: No medium found

From DVD, live image starts booting , but then it stuck at some point, vent is running at high speed and that's the end of story, waited for 5 minutes - nothing happens.

Secure boot is disabled, and I used  "Guided - entire disk" option , trying to install it on 128G SSD.

Same thing with KDE Neon

Any suggestions ?

[leszek]

I guess you checked the SHA256sum/md5 sum of the ISO to make sure it isn't damaged ?
If yes and the problem still occurs maybe try a different usb stick (there are some u3 sticks that have a small part recognized as cdrom drive and they tend to confuse linux live systems when it comes to booting) or a different usb port (especially try switching between USB 3 to 2 or the other way around when you have those two on this machine)

[bigor]

Hi leszek,
Thank you for the reply.
Yes, I have checked md5 sum, it matches. Regarding your suspicions about USB stick - as I mentioned, I also tried to run it from DVD, so the problem is deeper.
I forgot to mention that I successfully booted live image and installed Maui from same USB stick on my desktop machine and also on older ASUS laptop (N61JV) successfully. It seems that ASUS G551VW hw configuration or some BIOS setting causes the problem. It has nvidia GeForce GTX 660M, are you aware of any issues with this GPU ?

[leszek]

If it is just the gpu you could try the failsafe boot mode which will use a fallback generic graphicsdriver.

[bigor]

If it is just the gpu you could try the failsafe boot mode which will use a fallback generic graphicsdriver.

Hi leszek, 

This is what I get when I run live image in safe mode:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO8...RmdGlrV05R

Any ideas?

[leszek]

I am out of ideas. If it does not boot with USB for you and why it is searching for sr0. It does not make sense to me.