Hi,
Martin Ward:
> 1) I burned the ISO to DVD and booted from it, but can get no further than the
> initial greeter screen (Welcome to Tails!”). As you say, the format and language
> can’t be changed ( I am in the UK), but “Start Tails” doesn’t work either. When it is
> selected, the OS goes to a black tty screen and seems to start a couple of jobs, but
> then brings up the greeter screen again, exactly as before. When I select “Start
> Tails” again, the same thing happens, except that after a few seconds the mouse
> cursor freezes and the OS hangs completely. There is no response to any of the
> control-key inputs or ctrl-alt-del. I have to power the machine off with the
> power button.
Ouch. This seems to be a problem in the drivers for your graphics
adapter:
ATI AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 (HP)
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 (HP) 91 C
Can you please choose Troubleshooting Mode in the boot menu and retry?
> 2) When I first booted from the DVD, I had a flash drive in a USB socket ready for
> the Tails installation, and I noticed that the boot-up sequence was slow and rather
> odd. Eventually the PC came up with the standard greeter screen, as for Tails 2.11,
> with the button showing for the option to enable persistence data access.
> That shouldn’t happen for a DVD boot, obviously, and when I checked the USB drive, it
> did in fact have Tails 2.11 on it. My point is that I did definitely choose the PC
> option to boot from DVD, so there was some strange interaction in which Tails found
> the USB and started to use it. I’ve noticed this previously, but never reported it.
> I had to remove the USB drive in order to boot as described in (1) above.
Tails will search for its boot files on every available removable
medium. It could be fixed but it's not high priority for us at the
moment:
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/7475#note-4
Cheers,
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intrigeri
