Support/FAQThis is a collection of various hint/tips to solutions for common errors or problems.
My USB Flash drive does not bootA few things to check. - Is the correct boot.efi present on the "recovery" partition? The md5 checksum for the correct boot.efi is
md5sum boot.efi
280323d8700e4cfef15116f7e50590e3 boot.efi - Does the "recovery" partition have the correct GUID? While you can't see the GUID value, the patched parted should show the "atvrecv" flag which indicates the correct GUID.
sudo parted -s /dev/sdb unit s print
Model: SanDisk Cruzer Micro (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 501759s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 40s 69671s 69632s primary atvrecv - Does the "recovery" partition have the proper files?
ubuntu:~$ ls -l /media/Recovery
total 6148
-rw-r--r-- 1 999 999 298800 2008-04-27 22:00 boot.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 231 2008-03-15 23:31 boot_linux.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68619 2008-03-01 11:27 BootLogo.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 536 2008-03-16 18:05 com.apple.Boot.plist
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5912292 2008-04-26 20:49 mach_kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57 2008-03-15 23:31 patchstick.sh
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4 2008-01-26 13:22 System - Did you force a "recovery" boot by holding the "menu and "-" buttons down on the Apple IR Remote?
X11 fails to launchX11 fails to load, you make changes in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" to fix the problem and X11 still fails to load. WTF. X11 seems to be ignoring my changes. Some Linux installers will place "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe" for X11 to use if it encounters a failure in loading "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". Sometimes this failsafe is not correct and will also fail to load. Look at the "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" and you might see this (++) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe" Once X11 starts using the "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe", it becomes "stuck" using it and will not use "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". The solution is to "sudo rm "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe". Now you can fix "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" and move on.
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