Re: Troubles installing Debian on an ASUS notebook
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:43:36PM +0200, Emmanuel Guiton wrote:
> Thanks! I got it running with the sarge-amd64-2.6.12-netinst.iso
> <http://tinyplanet.ca/%7Elsorense/amd64/sarge-amd64-2.6.12-netinst.iso>
> at http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/
Yay! It fixed another one.
> Still, it doesn't tell why the other installs did not work. For more
> information, here are the answers to the few questions people asked:
I think there is some lack of support for the sis chipset in 2.6.8 then.
> The specifications of my notebook:
> ASUS A6QK30-RWDL
> Processor : AMD Turion 64 MT30 1,6 Ghz
> Cache memory L2 : 1 MB
> Chipset: SIS 756 + SIS 964L
> 512 MB DDR 333 memory
> Screen : 15.4" WXGA Color Shine
> Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 Turbo Cache 256Mo
>
> Yes, the i386 sarge netinstall works on it.
Using default boot (2.4) or using linux26 (2.6.8 kernel)?
> I've tried the "linux26" tip at boot prompt and the only change was
> "Could not find kernel image: linux26" instead of "Could not find kernel
> image: linux" ...
amd64 only has 2.6 kernels. i386 has 2.4 by default and 2.6 if you ask
for it.
> That's it folks!
> Thanks to all of you.
Len Sorensen
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