Re: Cannot install Linux on laptop
Does the kernel at least report on the terminal what it is doing ? If so what
are the last things it says ?
To my mind, there might be some kernel modules that need to be loaded for the
boot to continue - but even in these situations, usually the booting just
hangs, and doesn't restart over and over.
I have to admit that I'm a bit stumped at this point unless there is something
more you can say above. I was hoping that at the linux laptop URL, someone
would have made an entry for your laptop in the database of known working
laptops, with any info on special things they needed to do to get the laptop
running.
On 04-Dec-00 Ignacio Garcia wrote:
> I have installed Linux on a different computer several different times, but I
> just
> can't seem to get past the initial loading of the kernel at the very
> begining. As
> I said earlier, my ThinkPad reboots itself when it tries to load the Kernel.
> Then
> it repeats the process over and over again. I have tried using the different
> images that come on the Binary CD, and although not surprising they didn't
> work. I
> checked out the web and I have found nothing, anymore ideas...?
>
> "Geoffrey L. Brimhall" wrote:
>
>> Try looking at comments that people have made on the following URL - it is
>> one
>> of the best central stores of knowledge in getting linux to run on laptops:
>>
>> http://www.linux.org/hardware/laptop.html
>>
>> Have you installed debian on other pcs, so you are familiar with the general
>> Debian installation process ?
>>
>> Thanks !
>> Geoff Brimhall
>>
>> On 01-Dec-00 Ignacio Garcia wrote:
>> > I have tried installing Linux on my ThinkPad 385 XD, but it hasn't
>> > worked. When I first tried to install it, I got a message tha said A20
>> > gating failed. So I changed the boot-up disk that I was using, and now
>> > it goes through the initial motions of loading the kernel, then it
>> > restarts my computer. Any help would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ignacio Garcia-Nicoletti
>> > Network Administrator
>> > Grenville Christian College
>> > igarcia@grenvillecc.ca
>> >
>> >
>> >
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