Mark R. Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 The Mandriva 2006 DVD boots to the startup screen, but after I start the install, the bar goes to about 75% then restarts the computer. I am working off an HP Pavilion a804n desktop with a restore partition loaded by the manufacturer. I don't know if that is interfering with the install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 23, 2006 Report Share Posted July 23, 2006 Welcome aboard. :) Try booting the CD with some extra parameters like linux noapic linux nolapic linux noapic nolapic and disable Plug'n Play in the BIOS. Maybe that helps. If not, hit F2 for getting to the verbose bootmode and check where it stops/reboots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R. Posted July 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 Thanks, I'll try that btw, what does 'linux noapic' do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted July 24, 2006 Report Share Posted July 24, 2006 It's the "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller". What you're effectively doing is disabling it when you boot with the noapic option. The nolapic is the "local advanced programmable interrupt controller". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R. Posted August 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 (edited) I found what to do off a Suse live CD. I entered acpi=off before installing, and Mandriva installed just fine. Just 1 small glitch. This happens when I boot up: Kernel panic-not syncing no init found try passing init= to kernel How do I pass init= to the kernel? Also, is there a way to get the screenshot to a text file when this happens? Edited August 4, 2006 by Mark R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 When lilo appears with the options to choose from press esc, and then try the: linux acpi=off again to see if your system boots. If not, try: linux noapic and if that doesn't work, add: linux noapic nolapic and see if that helps. You can then always add acpi=off to this line too, to try all three at the same time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 You could also try linux noapic nolapic nopcmcia (as the laptop cardbus controller causes a conflict in some kernel revisions, and the actual HD cannot be initialized after the pcmcia module being loaded). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R. Posted August 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 I tried esc, then linux acpi=off. that's when I get kernel panic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted August 4, 2006 Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 OK, have you tried the noapic parameters as well? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark R. Posted August 4, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2006 OK, have you tried the noapic parameters as well? yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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