Guest Fabio61 Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 (edited) I have been experimenting with Linux on my new subnotebook. I first installed mandriva 2007.1-one; it installed beautifully with no problem neither in running nor in booting (I kept my vista and installed Mandriva on a second partition), however I realized that that distribution did not allow an easy reading and writing on my NFTS partition and I was suggested to go ahead with a clean install of Mandriva 2008. I did it and installed nicely, however after a few seconds after reboot the sistem freezed. I tried several times then I decided to give ubuntu a try. I installed Ubuntu and works nice, but I still like a lot of things of mandriva better, then I decided to install Mandriva spring 2008.1. I used a "one" version on a live CD. Everything went ok, nice installation, nice partitioning (I kept my ubuntu and I obtained a new partition for mandriva), very nice boot (effortless recognition of both ubuntu and vista partitions), but after a few seconds, again freezes: no mouse and no keyboard action. I downloaded the Mandriva-free-DVD and did a clean install with that, because I was suggested to pass the "no apic" parameter to the boot. Again everything went ok, but again a few seconds after booting everything freezes up. Any idea about what needs to be done? Edited June 3, 2008 by Fabio61 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest yaayaa Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 At what step does your system freeze ? Try typing "I" while booting to enter interactive mode. Then, you can select each module to be loaded and probably identify the problem. Need more information to help you.... Regards, Yaayaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 (edited) You can try a few boot switches: noapic nolapic acpi=off (safest) nopcmcia nohz=off and so on... These are the main things to try if you have a freezing system, and you don't know why. No need to reinstall of course, you can pass one, all or some of the above arguments to the kernel via the initial grub menu. Edited June 4, 2008 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fabio61 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 It freezes after booting: booting goes ok, the system starts up, I even can performa a task like opening one program (not always I can get so far, though!), then it freezes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fabio61 Posted June 4, 2008 Report Share Posted June 4, 2008 The only way I found so far to make it work is to pass the acpi=off switch to the kernel. Now, don't I risk to have a few pieces of hardware non recognized with that switch? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 5, 2008 Report Share Posted June 5, 2008 No problem with hardware. However, most power-saving features (suspend to ram, suspend to disk, dynamic CPU clock…) won't work anymore. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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