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Re: [PLUG] BIOS EDD -- new install hangs
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OK, the problem seems to really be with ACPI. With any of the distros I
try, the problems are almost the same:
With the Mandriva 2006, install works fine. But when I reboot I have to
use the option acpi=off to get past the wake items. This gets me as far
as the interactive startup message, where it hangs.
Ubuntu breezy: when I boot the install cd I have to use acpi=off. When
it reboots with acpi=off the boot hangs as it is trying to set the
system clock by the hardware clock. Without acpi=off it boots, but it is
excruciatingly slow.
The only distro I've tried that gave me anything like a successful
installation was Mandrake 10.1.
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 01:00 -0500, Shameel Arafin wrote:
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> Try Knoppix, and failing that, Damn Small Linux. Both are Debian
> based, and both run really well on older machines.
>
> S/
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> Christopher M. Jones wrote:
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> > I'm trying to install linux on an older machine (Celeron 700
> > vintage). I've tried several distros: ubuntu, debian, Mandrake. All
> > of them have the same result: they hang after ACPI reports its wake
> > devices and EDD reports devices. The last line before a hang reads
> > thus:
> >
> > ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S5) BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 6
> > devices found
> >
> > After that, nothing.
> >
> > Board is a SuperMicro 810 with Amibios 1997 1005001460 R 1.2C
> >
> > I don't know what kernel version it's trying to install, since the
> > messages go by so fast, but surely its the 2.6 series. By the way,
> > an older Mandrake, 10.1 community, did boot on this machine at one
> > time.
> >
> > Any ideas? I'm not even sure what to google.
> >
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