[SOLVED] Can't boot to GUI (TC 4.7.6) on HP T5740

[gmc]

Greetings.

I can't boot to the GUI on an HP T5740 using TC or TC+ CD boot.  The CD images are good in that they work on other systems with full GUI desktop.  I use the same external optical drive on working systems and on the T5740.  I have tried a second optical drive with the same results.  I have also tried any boot time options that might appply such as xsetup and pause.  There are no error messages shown with pause but xsetup does not run at all.

I tried TC 4.1 and it boots to the GUI with no problem, version 4.4 does not boot to GUI.

Any ideas on how to proceed?

Thanks...

[tinypoodle]

You could try to add boot options:

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waitusb=20 loglevel=9 debug syslog(omit "quiet"!)

[gmc]

Thanks tinypoodle - that gave me the push I needed.  I had never run into a problem with the USB connection not being ready in time.  When I did the waitusb=20 the problem was solved.  It is funny how blind I can be to the obvious, it just never occured to me that the drive wasn't there when needed, after all, it was there at boot time!  Sigh...

Anyway, you have done it again.  Thanks much for your time and interest and good tips.