Verplrke Posted April 16, 2009 Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 I'm trying to install Mandriva Powerpack 2009 on my Acer Aspire 5920G. After choosing to install Mandriva from the Boot menu. I get a black screen saying "probing edd" and then quickly going completely black. There is some disc activity afterwards for a few seconds but then it completely freezes. When I choose text-install instead of graphical install the last lines are "PME# is disabled" and then the computer freezes. I've tried some stuff like booting with edd=skipmbr and/or edd=off but this doesn't solve the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verplrke Posted April 16, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2009 I've managed to install Mandriva by changing the SATA-mode from ahci to IDE in the Bios. That made the install possible but I haven't been able to boot Mandriva as I get a similar blank screen after the bootloader now. Plus switching to IDE-mode gives BOSD's in Vista, so I had to switch back to ahci. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) Did you try any of the “standard†workarounds at install-time, such as noapic and/or nolapic ? Someone here seems to have a similar problem, and says using the “VESA option†solved the issue for him, although he has to wait at each boot… This seems to be a rare and troublesome problem! Maybe you should try and file a bug at qa.mandriva.com (after having checked that the problem is still in Mdv Cooker/2009.1) with as much detail as you can come up with. Yves. Edited April 17, 2009 by theYinYeti Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verplrke Posted April 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 I've got it. I choose the install without lapic and I was able to boot. So I swtiched lapic of in the bootloader and Mandriva booted succesfully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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