[Wylug-help] Install on Advent 5372 laptop

[Gary Stainburn]

On Friday 23 April 2004 12:50 pm, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > having got bluetooth working on my testbed PC I've decided to take the
> > plunge and install FC1 on my laptop, an Advent 5372, a Celeron 700 with
> > 128MB RAM, SIS chipset.
> >
> > It boots from the CD, and then I get the welcome screen.  I press <enter>
> > (text <enter> does the same) and it starts to boot the kernel.   It gets
> > as far as 'running /sbin/loader', then the screen goes blank and nothing
> > else happens.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
>
> Hopefully this one's easy.  I refer you to Alan Cox's notes on the matter:
>
> http://fedora.artoo.net/faq/#AlanCox
>
> On a particularly troublesome laptop, I've resorted to "noapic ide=nodma
> apm=off acpi=off"
>
> jh

Thanks for that John.  By turning on (off?) every practically switch I finally
got it to run.  Now all I have to do is complete the install and reconfigure
everything how I had it before.

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Gary Stainburn

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