[wellylug] Installation problem.

[Pete Black]

Ian,

Go into grub and try to boot with 'noapic acpi=off' appended to the 
kernel boot parameters

-Pete

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Jones <>
>To: "'Wellylug ()'" <>
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:35:02 +1200
>Subject: [wellylug] Installation problem.
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>>Morning all,
>>Having a problem installing  - boots off CD ok, goes through the
>>preamble,
>>gets to"decompressing linux...ok, booting the kernel" and hangs.
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>Hmm, I'd be inclined to do things such as disable as much as possible in
>the BIOS.  But also I've found that some installs you may need to pass
>some options to the kernel .. to disable DMA, USB, PCMCIA etc.
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>Are these install or live CDs it is not working with?  Some live CDs seem
>to work different (use different kernels and scripts) to the install CDs.
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