PB installing linux on ACER 1600

worstdream · 09-25-2003, 11:44 AM

dear, i have some problems installing linux, i have the mandrake 9.1 distribution, when i press enter to start the installation there some lines in a black screen and after nothing more appers, i have waited 10 minutes, try several times, but it alwaws the same thing!

i have a ASPIRE 1600LC_2.6 (ACER) with a pentium 4 2.6GHz, SIS645DX with Chipset SIS962, 512 DDram, ULTRA ATA/100 HDD
ATI radeon 9000 64Mo DDR

thank you,worstdream

(sorry for the mistakes, i am portuguese)

megaspaz · 09-26-2003, 12:38 AM

not sure. did you by the boxed set or did you download iso's from mandrake? if the latter, then the only real thing i can think of is a corrupt download or something went wrong when burning the iso image to cd.

edit: unfortunately i only found one entry where someone successfully installed linux on your model laptop.... it's in german....

http://www.tux-net.ch/html/modules/n...php?storyid=84

worstdream · 09-26-2003, 01:21 AM

tank you megaspaz,

yes i have been downloading the iso image and i have already used them for my desktop pc, with no problem, but noway with my notebook.

i have found too the site in german, but ... :-( i don't speak german,i just speak french, portuguese and a little of english

somone else can help me?

worstdream · 09-26-2003, 01:22 AM

sorry it was thank you and not tank you.... ;-)

worstdream · 09-26-2003, 09:30 AM

hello everybody, i found how install linux mandrake 9.1!

we have to press F1 to go to the option and then, choose kernel 2.2.19-BADZ5 instead of kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdkBOOT

to make it press F and choose alt1

but now what's the difference between this two kernel?

OscarV · 06-19-2004, 03:26 AM

I think the problem is caused by the apic option in the 2.4.x kernels to make it work you only have to give the following boot option "noapic" (without quotes) i guess that with this your 2.4 kernel will boot normally.

I know this thread is from september, but i still hope that can help someone. Sorry about my English! (I'm Spanish)

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