[Nottingham] Installation problems - Mandrake 10
Martin
martin at ml1.co.uk
Mon Jun 28 23:08:06 BST 2004
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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