[Trisquel-users] Problem with Trisquel 4.5.1

[mikefrost]

I downloaded the latest 4.5.1 release iso of trisquel yesterday.  I can boot  
the iso image in virtualbox just fine, but when I tried to boot the cd on  
bare hardware, I got the following error message.  "stdin error  init 5  
/dev/sdc not found".  What I surmise is init had a bug and rendered the  
system unable to load from the cdrom.  I noticed this only after waiting and  
watching the boot splash screen for over 5 minutes with the flashing trisquel  
logo.  I then pressed the escape button and found the above error message.

While in virtualbox, I booted the system and selected "check disk for errors"  
to check the iso file, and it checked fine!  My hardware is 3-4 years old,  
and perhaps without the "blobs" the kernel could not initialize certain  
hardware?  I don't know, but I really want to use trisquel because I am  
convinced that non-free software is a trap, and I don't want to be trapped by  
the "convenience factor"!

Thanks!