Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-06 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:50:20 -0500, Ron wrote in message <4a78126c.9070...@cox.net>: > On 2009-08-03 22:17, Timothy Wu wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson > > wrote: > > > [snip] > >> Maybe your BIOS is configured to look at the wrong HDD. That's a > >> very easy mistake t

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-04 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:17:11AM +0800, Timothy Wu wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: > > > >> > >> The same horizontal bar appears when successfully booting the Ubuntu live > >> CD, though it quickly disappeared. My guess i

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 22:17, Timothy Wu wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Maybe your BIOS is configured to look at the wrong HDD. That's a very easy mistake to make, especially if all your drives are the same make/model. Do you mean in the boot sequence? All three

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Timothy Wu<2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good news! I finally am able to boot with fail safe defaults. I don't know > what the defaults are though, I can't see any option being changed by casual > checking. I loaded back the optimized default and it still boots! So..I

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
Good news! I finally am able to boot with fail safe defaults. I don't know what the defaults are though, I can't see any option being changed by casual checking. I loaded back the optimized default and it still boots! So..I've no idea what I've really done. Now this is Ubuntu, I'm hoping I can rein

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: > >> >> The same horizontal bar appears when successfully booting the Ubuntu live >> CD, though it quickly disappeared. My guess is that it's part of the >> normal >> booting process. >> >> Oh yeah, this

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: >> >>> i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, >>> 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. >>> >>> A horizontal cursor

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. A horizontal cursor flashes means nothing to me... If you succeed installing you should be OK

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, > 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. > > A horizontal cursor flashes means nothing to me... If you succeed > installing you should be OK with hard drive. Give more inf

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > --00163642729ff6ff900470395e87 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > >> On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> >

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The > installation > > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > > screen and I

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The installation > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > screen and I don't see anything else. > I use a core i7 920 since 6 months. Never h

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The installation > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > screen and I don't see anything else. > > Timothy > I've just tri