New PC, & win 7 lost access to linux completely

On a more personal note age related comprehension and loss my only hobby frustrating all get out.
Specifically download linux ISO burn to live CD (verified) then installation (CD) freezes at black screen with cryptic text
"ready" and blinking cursor. Thinking might me my inability
burn correctly ordered and received 3 commercially produced
linux live CD (they freeze as well at install)
In desperation looked through my stuff discovered an old Mint 7 I had burned long time ago Installed it and lo and behold got dual boot (did this merely as test to give forums
some insight) Speaking of which other forums suggest its a
hardware problem but no suggested fix.
This win 7 on l675D is wireless.
So I went from an extended XP partition with multiple Linux access on old to this stalemate so speak. Please
advise and thank you for reading my tale woe

 

more detrails to your harware...please what brand what wireless what video card and so on...will help

 

Will be happy to within my capability. It is a Toshiba L675D and I went to system and included a snip in attachment. Know it would help if I could give you more info. Appreciate any thing you can offer.

 

ok what linux do you try to install?? I see mint7 in there but what Linux is it you try to install and when does it freeze????

It does sounds like a Hardware issue indeed.....if you let me know what linux you tried to install i can give you more information... also does the Laptop start from LIVE CD/DVD??????

 

Finally someone asking direct questions that i can furnish.
Yesy it boots from Min 10 commercially mfg live cd. It goes through
loading/Casper/Vmlinuz
Loading/initrid.lz
Then word "Ready"
Blinking cursor
The mint 7 that loaded from old CD was only a test and to provide someone like you an FYI
I sincerely thank you for taking an interest

 

ok when you loaded live cd/dvd did everything worked??? I am talking about WIFI, sound, and so on..... did the graphic looks ok to you?

Did you try another Distro like Ubuntu or fedora just to see if that works??
I had it in the past on a Acer that Mint did not work but Ubuntu worked just fine....

 

Sadly, Toshibas are well known to have ACPI bugs that make it hard to get some linux kernels working. I own a T235D and the last version of Ubuntu I can install or run on it was 10.04. 10.10 simply fails to boot, with the cursor flashing like you mention. Do a google search for linux toshiba acpi and see all the problems scroll by.

Sometimes turning off ACPI in the BIOS (if you can) can fix some of these issues.

 

One of the fourms did suggest ACPI conflict, will explore bios from that perspective.
On the other and perhaps did not clarify. I burned a ubuntu as well as a mint seven and both of them frooze at install as I described previously.
I also purchased commercially mfg Mint 10, open Suse 11.3 as well as
64 studio 2.0. Tried each of them and they frooze as well at install.
Again and I did this merely as a test installed an old Mint 7 and it went right on and dual booted. Curious as all get out. Getting ready to go into Bios and see if facility to turn off ACPI to check that aspect out.
Sorry I failed to answer one of your questions: As an example when I attempted to install the commercially mfg CD's both Suse 11.3 as well as mint 10 did give me great graphics on I think its called splash screen. At any rate the initial screen with welcome, install etc. Its only when it gets into the loading it freezes.
On the ACPI no facility in BIOS to change
However did google L675D Linux incompatability and I am not only one
Thanks again to both of you

 

When booting from the Ubuntu live cd, at the first purple screen (with the little man icon at the bottom) press any key. Then choose your language and on the next screen press F6. Some options will appear bottom right. Try the acpi=off option. Although it's not ideal to turn acpi off, it may enable booting to the live cd desktop. It may also enable installation to take plae. However, acpi off can have hardware repercussions, in that the fan may run all the time, or not at all, even if needed. If you install Ubuntu ok, keep an eye on temperatures - an overtemp will result in the hardware shutting down.
If you install Ubuntu and everything runs ok, you will need to boot the first time using the same option (acpi=off).
Hold down the shift key during first boot, make sure Ubuntu installation is highlighted then press the "e" key. On the new screen navigate to the end of the line which ends "quiet splash" then delete those words and type in acpi=off and press ctrl+X to boot.
To make the change permanent edit /etc/default/grub file the same way, save and then run sudo update-grub in the terminal. Reboot.

 

Also try nolapic noapic

The full list is here http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

 

it might be a Kernel/Hardware issue on the toshiba.... if the new version does not work try an version earlier....it uses a earlier Kernel.

I bet to 99% Kernel/Hardware issue

 

There should be a workaround, probably from a boot parameter, once we are able to narrow the problem down.

Also I can't tell what submodel you have of the L675D, but there is a 1.50 BIOS update for similar models, found here: Toshiba Support - Homepage

Unfortunately the release notes don't mention anything that looks like it may help. But I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right one.

Edit: also one more dirty trick to try, the boot parameter acpi_osi:

acpi_osi="Linux"

acpi_osi="!Windows 2009"

 

You folks gave me the encourgement to continue for I was ready to quit trying.
First off if one googles L675D Linux incompatibility one learns if I read it correctly this model of Toshiba rejects kernel in 10.10 but not 10.04.
When i downloaded the ISO initially it was 10.10 and I was not able to install. downloaded 10.04 and there was dual boot and wireless online.
I might add when I had tried the 10.10 initially and failed I tried wubi installer as well and failed. Part of the error was windows sysnative\bcdedit.exe\dubuntu\application boot sector
The boot configuration data could not be opened.
I am indeed excited and will continue to google and research to discover how to get Mint 10 and open suse 11.3 on. Hey glutton for punishment and I did a extended with 3 logicals and a swap.
(edit) Interesting as well is when I tried to install 10.10 with wubi and failed part or all of that error was failure execbcdedit.exe. That being said previously I tried to install Suse and live cd froze, but when i powered up, inserted Suse and opened: guess what failure to execute again. So its a glitch in this model that I will have to contend with. Thank God and forum I did get 10.04 installed
Thanks so much and be sure I will be back again