| Jeff Abrahamson on 21 Feb 2006 14:31:45 -0000 |
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On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 11:15:09PM -0500, Mike Ciul wrote: > [26 lines, 194 words, 1172 characters] Top characters: etnsiorl > > I'm having trouble installing Ubuntu. Even during the initial install, > the system freezes after about 5 minutes of uptime. By repeated > attempts, I got the thing to install all the way, but it still freezes > after about 5 minutes. I can't find any log messages close to the time > of the freeze. I've tried a few kernel options (acpi=off, nolapic, > noapic), I've stabbed randomly at BIOS options, but nothing seems to > make any difference. Can anyone think of a reason why a system would > freeze after 5 minutes of doing nothing in particular? It even does it > in single-user mode, so I don't think it's X-related. Is it stable if you run memtest86? That's about the simplest "OS" you could try running. Was the material you quoted (BIOS EDD problemy by C. Jones) or your subject relevant to your question? I had trouble seeing the link based on what you wrote. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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