Guest Mike Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Hello, I am a TOTAL Newbie refugee from Windows XP and im trying to install Mandrake 10.1. I have run through the install process with the disks sucessfully and when I start I get the login page with linux, linuxnonfb and failsafe. After selecting either of these I get a blank screen and an unresponsive computer. Selecting failsafe or linuxnonfb the start seems to stop at, ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. in addition above this is Checking if image is initramfs......it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd. ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd.....not found! I do not have a dual boot with another OS. Can anyone help with this....? System: Asus S1300N 1.4G centrino Intel 830M 628mb ram Video Intel Extreme Graphic 855GM 40G HDD etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 The usual check list should be done. Verify download with md5sum? Good burn? Do you have a scsi controller in your lappy? Try booting "linux noacpi" by hitting escape at the boot splash and typing it on the commandline to boot. Can you get a live linux cd like MEPIS or PCLinuxOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Thanx fixed it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durvish Posted November 6, 2004 Report Share Posted November 6, 2004 Mike post how you fixed it so others that might have the same prob can see how you did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 I'd love to sound clever but all i did was to reinstall the whole thing.....AND ...set no ACPI. Now im working on getting my Pro wireless Lan 2100 3B mini Pci wireless working....installing the driver with 10.1 froze the computer. Does my startup message "Briging up interface eth): Failed" have anything to do with this? Thanks for the help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 that should be "eth0"... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 first of all: is the networking device (wlan-card) detected by mandrake? the community edition does not ship with the same amount of drivers, the official edition is equipped with. also: which chipset does the card have? orinoco-based cards are known to work best with linux. we do have several topics covering wireless cards and mandrake in the networking section. take a look. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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