[Nottingham] Installation problems - Mandrake 10

[Martin]

Martin wrote:
> David Aldred wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> Thanks very much for all the help so far, but unfortunately nothing's 
>> worked yet (tried more than one CD drive, more than one CD, cleaned 
>> CD's thoroughly, disabled PnP, disabled acpi...).
> 
> 
> Set the bios for "OS is NOT pnp aware" or whatever.
> Disable "legacy USB"
> 
> And try booting into linux with:
> 
> linux noapic
> 
> or even:
> 
> linux noapic noapci

Typo!

Should be:
linux noapic noacpi


> 
>> Unless anyone has a blinding flash of solution I'm now considering 
>> trying a different distro to get round the problems. Does anyone have 
> 
> [...]
> 
> I've got a stash of DVDs with various distros on them that you're 
> welcome to borrow short term to try.
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> Martin
> 


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