From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.114.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4QEmEEi009774 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:48:15 GMT Received: from dsl-80-41-51-118.access.as9105.com ([80.41.51.118]:60458 helo=[192.168.1.25]) by mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DbJeo-000Np4-CB for gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 14:48:22 +0000 Message-ID: <4295EEF7.409@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 15:44:55 +0000 From: Sad Jack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050517) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Install problems References: <4295BB36.8080706@tiscali.co.uk> <4295DF24.6040706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4295DF24.6040706@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 95a37cb3-d18d-4683-addd-015012caf042 X-Archives-Hash: 1c4e172c9d27b4f8f006fbf78987ad26 Cliff Rowley wrote: > Sad Jack wrote: > >> Whenever I try and boot from the install CD (the same one used to >> install on my desktop, the current universal 2005) installation hangs >> after 'ok installing the kernel'. Nothing seems to happen, no disk >> access (CD or Hard drive). >> >> I've tried other distros..Suse, Ubuntu, Puppy, the only one that gets me >> passed the above is Slackware 10.1 which goes through the complete >> install but cannot write lilo to boot. Just says it can't write and says >> to do it manually. > > > Is there some kind of boot or virus protection switched on in your BIOS? > Perhaps something that prevents the boot loader from being > overwritten? Although that doesn't explain the detection weirdness. > > Only thing I can think of, aside from some funky unsupported hardware. > >> I get the feeling that its at the hardware detection stage that is the >> problem as live CD's when booted in failsafe load and work OK. I can't >> find a failsafe option to boot Gentoo, is there one? > > > Hmm interesting. Maybe if you could boot Slackware 10.1 or boot the > livecd's in failsafe and save your dmesg output it might provide some > more insight (maybe). > > Thanks for the replies. some interesting suggestions there especially about the bios. Can't check it just now as I'm mid way through installing Fedora Core 3 which at least is installing the packages same as Slacware 10.1. Not got to the stage where grub is written yet, so heres fingers crossed that at least I will get some form of linux on this thing. I'll check out the bios as soon as it reboots Cheers -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list