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02-07-2015

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When loading Linux "loading please wait.." then nothing?

Hi everyone,

I have a problem but I have never installed a separate OS before so my lingo and understanding may not be as good as some of you. I will try and explain my problem best I can. I am trying to instead of loading Windows 7 when my computer starts up, for it to start linux specifically tails (a type of linux, I think). I have followed instructions online and have managed to get tails onto my USB stick, when my computer is loading I press F2 or F8 (forget which now) and a screen comes up asking me to select Live or Live (failsafe) I am told to select Live so I do. After this, a login screen should appear however all that happens is the following:

Decompressing Linux ... Parsing ELF ... done.
Booting the kernel.
Loading, please wait...
_

Appears for a split second then goes, a loading bar (blue and white) then appears at the very bottom of my screen, once complete ..

"early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux ... Parsing ELF ... done.
Booting the kernel.
Loading, please wait...
_"

appears again.

The _ keeps blinking, I have been watching it for well over an hour (it is doing nothing) at one point my screen even went blank so I thought it had finished so I pressed a key and the screen lit back up to show me the same message.

I have tried to load tails on 3 seperate computers and it does the same thing every time. I have re-downloaded tails (version 1.2.3, released 14 Jan) just incase it was a version problem. I am at my whits end here I have no idea what to do, please any help would be appreciated thank you.

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hol-light

HOL-LIGHT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      HOL-LIGHT(1)

NAME

       hol-light - HOL Light interactive theorem prover

SYNOPSIS

       hol-light [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  command  hol-light	is  a  simple  wrapper	for  calling ocaml and loading the HOL Light basic definitions (by loading /usr/share/hol-
       light/hol.ml instead of .ocamlinit as initialization file). Loading these definitions takes about 2 minutes on modern hardware,	please	be
       patient. All options and other arguments are passed as options to ocaml.

       If you have a readline-editor such as rlwrap, ledit or rlfe installed, the hol-light ocaml toplevel is wrapped in readline-editor.  Install
       just one of these readline editors or configure your preferred one via the alternative system.

SEE ALSO

       ocaml(1), readline-editor(1), rlwrap(1), ledit(1), rlfe(1)
       HOL Light documentation at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/hol-light/

AUTHOR

       The hol-light script and this manual page were written by Hendrik Tews <hendrik@askra.de>, specifically for the Debian project (and may	be
       used by others).

								  March  16, 2012						      HOL-LIGHT(1)