[wellylug] Installation problem.

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Black [mailto:pete at marchingcubes.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 28 August 2006 1:41 p.m.
> To: Wellington Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] Installation problem.
> 
> 
> Ian,
> 
> Go into grub and try to boot with 'noapic acpi=off' appended to the 
> kernel boot parameters
> 
> -Pete

Ian isn't having the problem, I am. And I have tried the noapic option to no
effect.

Peter

> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Peter Jones <>
> >To: "'Wellylug ()'" <>
> >Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:35:02 +1200
> >Subject: [wellylug] Installation problem.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Morning all,
> >>Having a problem installing  - boots off CD ok, goes through the 
> >>preamble, gets to"decompressing linux...ok, booting the kernel" and 
> >>hangs.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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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