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Cliff Rowley wrote: |
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> Sad Jack wrote: |
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>> Whenever I try and boot from the install CD (the same one used to |
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>> install on my desktop, the current universal 2005) installation hangs |
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>> after 'ok installing the kernel'. Nothing seems to happen, no disk |
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>> access (CD or Hard drive). |
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>> I've tried other distros..Suse, Ubuntu, Puppy, the only one that gets me |
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>> passed the above is Slackware 10.1 which goes through the complete |
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>> install but cannot write lilo to boot. Just says it can't write and says |
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>> to do it manually. |
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> Is there some kind of boot or virus protection switched on in your BIOS? |
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> Perhaps something that prevents the boot loader from being |
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> overwritten? Although that doesn't explain the detection weirdness. |
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> Only thing I can think of, aside from some funky unsupported hardware. |
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>> I get the feeling that its at the hardware detection stage that is the |
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>> problem as live CD's when booted in failsafe load and work OK. I can't |
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>> find a failsafe option to boot Gentoo, is there one? |
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> Hmm interesting. Maybe if you could boot Slackware 10.1 or boot the |
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> livecd's in failsafe and save your dmesg output it might provide some |
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> more insight (maybe). |
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Thanks for the replies. |
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some interesting suggestions there especially about the bios. Can't |
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check it just now as I'm mid way through installing Fedora Core 3 which |
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at least is installing the packages same as Slacware 10.1. Not got to |
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the stage where grub is written yet, so heres fingers crossed that at |
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least I will get some form of linux on this thing. |
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I'll check out the bios as soon as it reboots |
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Cheers |
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