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 j4QFDW1v014241 for ; Thu, 26 May 2005 15:13:32 GMT Received: from dsl-80-41-51-118.access.as9105.com ([80.41.51.118]:45244 helo=[192.168.1.25]) by mk-smarthost-8.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DbK3I-0007q0-JS for gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 15:13:40 +0000 Message-ID: <4295F4E6.2070104@tiscali.co.uk> Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 16:10:14 +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> <4295EEF7.409@tiscali.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4295EEF7.409@tiscali.co.uk> 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: a4d40550-ec6f-4cf4-9b28-728e108f389a X-Archives-Hash: 7d8e0388b8a40d679c82678c958d29a1 Sad Jack wrote: > 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 OK FC 3 is loaded and running. Grub was installed and works fine. FC3 has not detected the graphics or the screen correctly and at the moment I am stuck with 800x600 resolution or lower. I would suggest at this stage its a hardware detection problem with the other distro and that FC3 is a little more accomodating! Its not my preferred install and I'll keep looking for a way to get gentoo so if there are any more suggestions, please keep them coming! By the way there is no settings in the bios that cause a problem with writing the bootloader. Thanks again -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list