Guest philipd Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 I run the install, dual boot with XP, Language ok License ok Partitioning ok Installing ok Users ok Bootloader - never arrives! just sits there CD won't eject, no response from the keyboard. mouse still moves though. Why why why why?? I have tried this 5 times, but no luck. anyone else had this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest loupblanc Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Yes I have the exact same problem and was coming here to figure out if someone had found a solution. I'm not on a laptop but on a newly built machine. It just gives me a blank page before reaching the bootloader like it gets confused by the existing XP boot and doesn't know what to do but doesn't tell you what's wrong either. If anyone has any clue that would be quite helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 There's probably some hardware that is confusing the installer. For example, I know I always have problems when installing Linux on my wife's Dell Inspiron 1501. I do manage, though. Sometimes, the solution is to try one, or several, of the proposed additionnal boot options (noapic, nolapic, nomsi, irqpoll…); sometimes, changing the installation method does the trick, eg using One instead of Free, or the other way around; sometimes, the answer is to do a bare minimal install, with little more than X, or even no X at all, and then use urpmi to add task-x11 and task-gnome (for example). I hope this will give you some ideas. Good luck! Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest loupblanc Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 You're probably right, I suspect it has issues with my on-board nVidia graphic chipset. So since I really can't find a way around it (It worked again somehow after I posted my original query but now it just won't work at-all), I'll just put 2008 back on and wait until a better version is released that doesn't give me so much hassle. Shame really, it just reminds me of Vista :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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