mediaspider Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 Hi, Tried to install Mandrake 9.2 on the second logical partition, as dual boot with Fedora Core. After the first steps, when installation loads programme into memory, the machine hangs. I tried all the available methods, such as low graphic, text and so on. But nothing helped. My bootloader is GRUB, which has no problems detecting the fedora installation. Mine is a sony laptop with P4 2.5Ghz, 1GB ram and nVidia Go5600-64MB with 80GB hd and Sony cd/dvd drive. Any help? Thanks a lot. Pkris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 When it hangs does the keyboard lock? If not, do Ctrl+Alt+Fx (1,2,3,4,5,6) and look for why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghil Vertefeuille Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 it did the same thing to me...I tried to do the text install and it worked ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediaspider Posted February 15, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 Hi, Thanks! Yes, it locks the keyboard as well. And the machine freezes and has to be rebooted. Regarding text installation, I tried that too. However, it never worked. Cheers Praved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted February 15, 2004 Report Share Posted February 15, 2004 At the splash screen press F1, the type; linux text noapic acpi=off ide=nodma vga=normal and press Enter There's other kernel parameters as well but these are the ones usually needed. You can add and remove as needed. linux text acpi=on ide=nodma vga=normal or linux text acpi=off vga=normal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediaspider Posted February 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Thanks again. I tried installing on Virtual PC and it worked fine, as on virutal pc, it uses diferrent hardware configuration. I am gonna try to install with the commnad line option, i tried vgalo, though.Thanks for the advice on ACPI. never thought about it. Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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