[wellylug] Installation problem.

[Pete Black]

oops, right you are.

my bad.

acpi is often the problem, so try that too.

-Pete

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>>-----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.
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>>Ian,
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>>Go into grub and try to boot with 'noapic acpi=off' appended to the 
>>kernel boot parameters
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>>-Pete
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>Ian isn't having the problem, I am. And I have tried the noapic option to no
>effect.
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>Peter
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>>>-----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 
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>>>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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