Mandrake 9.2 installation hangs. Help needed.

[mediaspider]

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

[bvc]

When it hangs does the keyboard lock? If not, do Ctrl+Alt+Fx (1,2,3,4,5,6) and look for why.

[Ghil Vertefeuille]

it did the same thing to me...I tried to do the text install and it worked ;)

[mediaspider]

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.

[bvc]

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

[mediaspider]

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