Linux Mint ISO with RTAI and RT

I'm running Mint 19.3, LinuxCNC 2.8.0~pre1, and the RTAI kernel from here linuxcnc.org/temp/ . No compiling or patching. All is well so far.

tommylight wrote: One thing to check regarding the installer crash, check the BIOS if the hard drive is set as AHCI.

Tom the bios was set as IDE I have changed it to AHCI and will try again in the morning and report back.

Clive S wrote:

tommylight wrote: One thing to check regarding the installer crash, check the BIOS if the hard drive is set as AHCI.

Tom the bios was set as IDE I have changed it to AHCI and will try again in the morning and report back.

I never had this issue, just read several posts on the net claiming it fixes the crashing.

Never heard of anything falling on the side of a truck

Anyways I thought I might help the cause. RT only not RTAI

[strike]ISO:
drive.google.com/file/d/1g7iBAT4uYJmXiNg...yQA/view?usp=sharing
md5:
drive.google.com/file/d/1niJh7DHxVq68Uzb...35-/view?usp=sharing

Will boot with all kernel & boot text from USB or DVD, once installed it will boot as per normal.

If booting from VBox it may possibly stall on Regenerating SSL Certificates. Capture keyboard in the virtual machine and press shift and process will continue. Have tested a few times in a virtual machine and installation went fine. Haven't yet tried on reall hardware.

Note this ISO is not an official Mint Release, although remastered from one. So any issues blast myself, not Mint devs nor Tommy.


Cubic creates a iso that is not a hybrid ie: issues booting from USB will boot from dvd ok
easy fix is to use isohybrid /path/to/iso/image


isohybrid is part of syslinux-utils in bionic, xenial and recent debian[/strike]

[strike]Please see this post for a newer version
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...tion?start=50#156740 [/strike]

tommylight wrote:

Clive S wrote:

tommylight wrote: One thing to check regarding the installer crash, check the BIOS if the hard drive is set as AHCI.

Tom the bios was set as IDE I have changed it to AHCI and will try again in the morning and report back.

I never had this issue, just read several posts on the net claiming it fixes the crashing.

Ok. When set to AHCI there was a slight difference in that a window came up to allow or change the partition size and I told it to use the whole disk. BUT it still crashed at the install file part with the same message "installer crashed"

Put some bad words here.....
The situation is a bit messed up as i had to remove the laptops, pc's and most of the tools from the shop to my bedroom due to moisture, so i need some time to set up some hardware for testing. Also have to train the new owners of the plasma machine, build another plasma machine at 3X2 meters cut area, another rotary tube cutter and maybe, just maybe a heavy duty router at 1X0.8 meters work envelope.
Oh joy !