Linux Install Woes

[Leah Cunningham]

Jason Shein (jason-xgs8i/e9EeWTtA8H5PvdGCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org) [050315 07:45]:
> On March 15, 2005 03:14 pm, John Wildberger wrote:
> > Recently I bought a HPa820n Pavilion Computer with XP OS installed.
> > I used Partition Magic to create some additional partitions.
> > When trying to install Mdk10.0 it goes through the initial install log and
> > then comes to the point where it says: Loading program into memory,
> > At this point the computer hangs.
> > Could it be that either the HW is too advanced (800Mz FSB) or that some
> > other quirk is preventing the loading?
> > Any suggestions?
> > John
> > .
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> This was a known problem in Mandrake 10.0 on some hardware configurations. You 
> should be able to install using noprobe or text install.
> 
> 10.1 is available now and 10.2 is in beta. Any particular reason you are not 
> installing 10.1? It fixes a lot of known issues that 10.0 had.

Another thought is to type at the first boot screen of the installer
the option "acpi=off" off.

Leah

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