Installing Core 1 on HP notebook

maverick K_Rock at gmx.de
Sat Feb 21 14:18:18 UTC 2004


Few days ago, i had a simillar problem with my FSC AMILO D.
At least i tried all kernel parameters i found on the net.
But

linux nofb

should do it. This worked fine for me.

greets: Bernd

Am Sam, 2004-02-21 um 14.59 schrieb David S. Johnson:
> Devjit Gopalpur wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to install Core 1. Config is AMD Athlon-XP(M) 1.87 GHz, 
> > 192 MB RAM + 64 MB shared video mem, 15" XGA TFT with ATI Radeon card. 
> > I dont seem to be able to proceed with the installation after the 
> > kernel image is uncompressed from boot CD, in either text or graphics 
> > mode. Is this a problem with drivers/resolution? I would appreciate 
> > any help/suggestions/insight.
> >
> My experience also, in fact I was unable to boot rescue off the CD 
> either.  I have no resolution to the problem of hanging while loading 
> the boot image off the CD, but I do have a workaround. 
> 
> Use the boot CD, but at the initial prompt, enter "linux askmethod 
> acpi=on" (for rescue, "linux askmethod rescue acpi=on").  When prompted 
> for the boot method, choose one of the methods other than CD.  These 
> will require advance setup to place the contents of all the installation 
> CDs in the place you indicate for booting, e.g. on disk if loading from 
> disk, or as an NFS share, if you choose that method.  Directions for 
> setting these up are in the README file on the first CD.
> 
> I had great success using the NFS method.
> 
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