Robin wrote:
2008/6/20 Kent West <westk@acu.edu>:Apparently the Dell Optiplex 320 is one odd piece of computer; the 'Net is full of people having trouble installing Linux on it.
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So I tried going the route of doing a network install via http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com, but it installs grub and doesn't give me any option to feed the "pci=nomsi" parameter (or any other similar parameters); I've been unable to find a way to force this grub install to let me add boot arguments.I may be misunderstanding, but when the grub menu comes up can you not press 'e' to edit. If so select kernel line and press 'e' again and add option there. Hit the 'Return' key and then 'b' to boot.
No, there's not so much as a grub menu; it's like the grub menu has been pre-told which option to boot from, so there's no option for the user to over-ride the installer's choices. I was hoping someone knew a "hot-key" (like the left-shift (IIRC) in LILO when it's been instructed not to wait for user interaction) to bring the menu up.
-- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com