K1n6 Paranoia Posted February 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 Hi MUB and to those who patiently answered my questions, Im very sorry. Linux wont still boot. I tried already every to the extent of my knowledge in everyones advise. This was my fourth failure. I still want to install linux in my laptop. Here some snapshot from my installation in partitioning. I tried to partition it again after the 3rd failure. sda1 where my xp sda5..where my vista.. If you will notice..it skipped. I dont know why.. And the partitions after auto-allocate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1n6 Paranoia Posted February 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 The result: Hope to here more advise. May my snapshot will help analyze the failure. Thanks mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 From what I see Mark you have a rather small '/' partition and a rather large '/home' partition. The '/swap' is fine. What I suggest is use 'custom partition'. increase your '/' partition by 10 or 15 gigabyte, keep the same size for your swap and the use the remainder for '/home'. To do this you will need to clear the partitions already set for sda6 sda7 and sda8, then set the partitions as just mentioned and format those three partitions. That will clear the data and you can do a clean install on those partitions. I know it's a drag having to re-install but this way you know it will be a clean install. Good Luck, we are always here if things don't go right. Do not resize your windows partitions. Just leave them as they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1n6 Paranoia Posted March 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) SilverSurfer60 , Sorry. It did not work. I tried reinstalling it. But it seem the problem is on booting again. Thank you. Mark Edited March 1, 2008 by K1n6 Paranoia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) When the grub screen appears, hit esc and then add acpi=off to the kernel boot commandline. Does it boot properly now? Edited March 1, 2008 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Are you on a 32bit or 64bit system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1n6 Paranoia Posted March 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) i still did not try that acpi=off...i dnt know about it...i try this one Im using AMD 64 athlon x2...i guess it is a 64 bit machine...am i right? Thanks Edited March 1, 2008 by K1n6 Paranoia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 You are quite correct, your system is 64bit although from reading posts it should still operate with little or no problems. Unfortunately that's where my knowledge of 64bit systems ends. You could try Scarecrows suggestion, also you could try and boot from the Live CD without installing it. If the latter does not work then you have an incompatibility problem!!! Just what is beyond my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1n6 Paranoia Posted March 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 when i try scarecrow advise....i hit esc...it will show 4 selection..i choose linux and hit c for commandline... GRUB> acpi=off error 27 unrecognized command If there is still some suggestion Thanks SilverSurfer60 and scarecrow.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1n6 Paranoia Posted March 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) is the linux /swap,/,/home are the same in all linux distribution.....?So that i will not partition anymore.. i read ubuntu need only two linux-swap ,/.. mandrive is 3....swap,/ and home... Maybe i should consider other distribution.. mark Edited March 1, 2008 by K1n6 Paranoia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSurfer60 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Hello there Mark, I only tried Ubuntu live CD and didn't like it so I cannot give any advice on that distribution. I have tried others but found Mandriva to my liking and have stuck with it. Hence my knowledge of other distributions is very limited. Did you try my last suggestion? Booting from the live CD without installing. If you use this method you do not need to partition anything as the whole system is run from the CD and not your hard drive. By all means try another distribution it is your computer and to me Linux is Linux. I'm just pleased to try and be of assistance :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1n6 Paranoia Posted March 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 (edited) SilverSurfer60, Mandriva Live CD has no problem in my laptop..It run smoothly but video card is not recognize... Ubuntu wont work..Even installation CD...huh.. I am now downloading the OPEn SUSE..its AMD 64 compatible..maybe it will work now.. Thanks for your time..Ill just post if i have question.. Maybe in MUB , linux is linux also. Nice to know you. Mark Edited March 1, 2008 by K1n6 Paranoia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magwitch Posted March 26, 2008 Report Share Posted March 26, 2008 Hi, new to the forum. Hope it's OK to tag onto this thread, as I have similar problems to Mark. The only difference is that I have two drives - a PATA with WinXP, and a SATA with the Mandriva Power Pack 2008 (free DVD from Linux Mag) installed. I also get the frozen Mandriva splash screen when I choose Mandriva from the menu that appears. That menu also allows me to boot into Windows, and that works OK. I partitioned the SATA drive during installation as follows - SDA1 /. (ext3 10Gb) SDA5 /swap (ext3 580Mb) SDA6 /home (ext3 30Gb) SDA7 and 8 - 10GB partitions for possible other distros (not concerned ATM with these) If I disconnect the WinXP drive then boot up, I can get into Mandriva no problem from the menu. Does this mean something in the WinXP boot files are are causing the problem? Regards, Magwitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Magwitch Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 Don't know if this will help, but here's the Grub boot info - timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/gfxmenu default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/sda1 splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/sda1 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/sda1 failsafe initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 Regards, Magwitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 What happens if you try to boot one of the other two configurations? (first linux-nonfb, and if this does not work too, failsafe). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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