after waiting about 10 minutes the Ubuntu installation never dropped to
a shell.
i have the same problem installing Fedora 7 except i can access a shell
after 60 seconds. it does not allow me to run that first command you
suggested... and there is no /var directory, it doesn't exist.
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Cannot i
i just updated my BIOS since i found this statement listed in the
website below. "It addresses a potential issue which might cause a
system to exhibit erratic behavior such as a system hang, reboot, blue
screen or Kernel Panic (Linux)". unfortunately, it did not solve my
problem. i am attempting ev
come to think about it, a BIOS update is possible. i bought this
computer from my school because they were getting all new computers.
they wiped our the hard drives on the pc's and some of the drivers need
to be updated.
i'm just not sure how to update the BIOS, or any drivers, without an OS
insta
i attempted to install Fedora 7 on the same machine and it also got to
the point of "booting the kernel" and then it hangs. it looks like a
hardware compatibility issue.
am i just out of luck? this computer was not meant to have linux
installed on it?
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Cannot install, hangs after "Freeing init
i've tried several combinations including any of the following:
mca-pentium no-hlt
noapic
nolapic
gdth=disable:y
all without any luck.
this IBM does have a pentium processor.
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Cannot install, hangs after "Freeing initrd memory: k freed"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40093
You received t
by default:
boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw
quiet splash --
again noting that my computer has 512MB of RAM and not 1GB, and that
running a Memory test freezes the computer.
thanks for checking back on this old topic.
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Cannot install, hangs after "F
It gets as far as starting to mount the root file system then the following
appears..
Uncompressing Linux.. Ok, booting the kernel.
[17179573] BIOS bug, local APIC #0 not detected!...
and it hangs there.
i am assuming i put that text after the "--" in the boot options.
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Cannot install, hangs
i am having the same problem as ryan is describing. by running a regular
install the computer hangs after "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the
kernel."
i tried booting with "acpi=ht noapic nolapic". i get to a screen with
the ubuntu logo and it says Loading essential drivers .. OK then
Mounting
