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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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No virus found in this outgoing message. |
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Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. |
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Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.17 - Release Date: 25/05/2005 |
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