Can't Boot with Any Flavor of Linux on Twinhead Laptop

travelvice · 04-03-2008, 03:28 PM

Howdy,

I recently purchased a Twinhead H12Y laptop and seem to be unable to get any flavor of Linux to boot (off a CD).

I've tried UBUNTU: Hangs on boot.
I've tried a Nero 6 recovery tool (BackItUp): Hangs on boot.
I've tried Backtrack2: Hangs on boot.

Here are a pair of screenshots from the hang points: Nero BackItUp, Backtrack2

There seems to be some discussion about a network card driver bug (here).

Any thoughts?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 04-03-2008, 07:28 PM

Have tried disabling ACPI? That's the usual culprit.

TB0ne · 04-04-2008, 08:53 AM

I agree with Nexus...disabling ACPI would be a good start. You might also be able to do an installation with a NOPROBE option, to prevent the installer from looking too hard at your hardware.

Have you tried any other flavors of Linux? OpenSuSE? Mandriva? Knoppix?