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35 minutes of stuffs later, it was still exactly where I left it. ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed (Node ffff935fb38b6fa0), AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE (20160938/psparse-543) ACPI Exception: AE_AML_OPERAND_TYPE, While resolving operands for (20160930/sdwexec-461_ MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC I did notice something of interest at the start of the live usb (shows in on LXDE live USB too, but this is still able to shutdown and restart) and seems related (to Mint at least): I found another guide that was very similar, slightly different, it had me modify just the one line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" acpi=force apm=power_offĪnd then had me modify modules and add: apm power_off=1 I used the live USB to restore the grub, wasn't particularly complex, except mounting sda5 turned out to be "swap" and a look at gparted showed me that I needed sda1. Ok, further to what I wrote, it turns out that I was mistaken, the live USB does not restart or reboot the laptop either (the other 2 distros I looked at did so just fine, also both based off of ubuntu/debian).
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Thanks in advance for your help LOVE YOU!!! I googled a bunch and searched this forum, tried some stuffs, none of it worked. TL DR - Mint 18.3 64bit won't shutdown or restart on an old Dell Inspiron 1501. There was an AMD minicode firmware thing, but I didn't touch it.
#HIREN BOOT USB STOPS KERNEL DRIVER#
I also looked at the drivers, since another thread mentioned something about an nvidia driver (don't think this has nvidia) the only proprietary driver in use was the B43. A simple press of the power button does not complete the shutdown either, and as previously stated, it shutdown just fine from the live USB. I'm assuming I can access the grub file from the live usb and get the desktop back, but it's incredibly frustrating not being able to restart or shutdown. I have done all the updates for it too (thinking newer kernels may fix it etc) to no avail. Before I find myself a different distro, I thought I'd ask here. This took away the splash screen and gave me rows of text of everything doing it's thing, then the login screen popped up, logged in, black screen with cursor as usual, only after all the hdd activity finished, no desktop, still that way 5 minutes later, zip.
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This did nothing at all, same issue on restart and shutdown, so next was to add: With this I was able to modify grub, first with: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="apm=power_off" I went to the menu and located the text editor, which hitting "about" I discovered was called xed. I found several threads about this issue, the first had some code: for e in kate gedit pluma do if test -e /usr/bin/$e then $e /etc/fstab fi done A minute later of zero activity and I forcibly shut it down).
#HIREN BOOT USB STOPS KERNEL INSTALL#
I already knew it didn't pick up the wireless, but prior to installation had googled it and discovered I needed to install the b43 firmware or something from synaptic, which after I had installed Mint to the HD I duly did and wifi working after a restart (which of course had me holding down the button, since it wouldn't restart, the Mint logo appeared, dots flashed, screen flashed and went black, then the logo and dots re-appeared but no movement. I installed Linux Mint 18.3 64bit to an old Dell Laptop (Inspiron 1501) after testing it on the live usb stick I had made (which I might add, had no issues shutting down). Hi all, sorry to be a pain, I have googled and searched these forums, and everything I have done has either not worked, or as is the case now, completely prevented me even reaching the desktop.