Re: Installation report -- Sarge, Compaq Presario 2199US
* Mike Oliver <mike_lists@verizon.net> [2004-05-13 15:53]:
> There's some sort of ACPI conflict. "linux26 acpi=off" works, to
> some extent. Of course in the long run I'd like ACPI to be
> available.
Interesting; once you have a working system, it would be good to get
the full kernel messages with 2.6.
> But I'm not sure how to set up booting. Can I put GRUB into the MBR
> and still boot my existing WinXP volume? Do I have to make another
> partition and copy the Windows bootloader there or something? If
I'm not sure about this. If you load the the ntfs module by hand
before installing GRUB, it will find your Windows XP installation and
offer this as an option when booting. You can also install GRUB on a
specific partition, but I've no idea how you can boot this from the
Windows boot loader. Maybe someone else can give more advice about
this.
> BTW I tried skipping bootloader configuration and booting with a
> rescue disk -- didn't work so well.
Which rescue disk did you use?
> If I tried Woody disk 5, it sort of worked but couldn't see the
> network.
That's probably because the kernel is different to the kernel modules
on your hard drive.
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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