Mandrake on Laptop(s)?

RobNyc · 01-21-2005, 08:51 PM

I installed Mandrake 10.2 Cooker SNapshot sucessfully full-time on my Amd AThlon XP-M 2800+ 256MB of pc2700 & 512mb of pc2100. 30gb . Ati Radeon IGP

I installed Mandrake 10.1 Official after I saw Cooker wouldn't do nothing after the boot loader entered LInux it went into a black screen, and the samething happend to 10.1

ANyone can help

THanks

caladbolg · 01-22-2005, 09:30 AM

I've had this problem a lot. I believe it has to do with acpi. Try booting

linux noacpi nolapic

That should work for you

RobNyc · 01-22-2005, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by caladbolg
I've had this problem a lot. I believe it has to do with acpi. Try booting

linux noacpi nolapic

That should work for you

how do I do that?

DeusExLinux · 01-22-2005, 03:36 PM

edit the grub.conf file and add noacpi to whatever kernel you are booting..
I think you can do it in grub itself...

RobNyc · 01-22-2005, 04:04 PM

MDK doesnt uses GRub

RobNyc · 01-22-2005, 06:51 PM

After I Install MDK and I try to go into linux the first option linux just shows a black screen and nothing happens, I try to restart ctrl alt delete and nothing and i press caps and no lights go on or nothing.. I tried the others options and they just saying loading.......... and shows some stuff but then it stays there too.. I'm using an Amd Athlon XP-M 2800+ Laptop

caladbolg · 01-22-2005, 09:08 PM

Before you enter into Linux on boot, hit the escape button (at least it should be escape for LILO). Type

linux noacpi nolapic

RobNyc · 01-22-2005, 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by caladbolg
Before you enter into Linux on boot, hit the escape button (at least it should be escape for LILO). Type

linux noacpi nolapic

Tried that already, but I''m gonna retry again.

RobNyc · 01-22-2005, 10:59 PM

Let me double check some info

I installed Frugalware and it took over the BOot LOader but MDK shows up because thats the beauty of Frugalware it shows up automatically whatever its installed. so i have frugalware and linux (dev/hda2) which is MDK . what I do from GRub ? I press right arror and left, then I'm able to type on the bottom so after the message that is there already I Type linux noacpi nolapic ?

DeusExLinux · 01-23-2005, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by RobNyc
MDK doesnt uses GRub

Mandrake uses Grub if you configure it to.... I prefer Grub, and don't really like Lilo... I tend to like things that are more simple, besides the first distros I used used Grub, so I kinda got used to it..

You can use what you want, but I beleive the same basic commands apply. (noacpi noapm) and whatnot.... there should be a boot option correctly configured that does that (nocfg or something...)
Are you sure your install isn't corrupt, also did you run the md5 of the cd's to make sure your download wasn't all screwy?

RobNyc · 01-23-2005, 12:57 AM

I had installed from these same cds Cooker cd, Mini CD on vmware while I was on windows. Ok now you're telling me noacpi noapm ?

I was just told " linux noacpi nolapic "

Ok with Grub how do I do that?

caladbolg · 01-23-2005, 08:48 AM

Do you have failsafe mode? Use that if you do. Then you can go into drakconf and manually disable acpi and apic.

RobNyc · 01-23-2005, 01:04 PM

failsafe doesnt work either

I installed SAM Linux (Mandrake 10.1 base and Cooker apps) based. And I fixed grub and edited it with the help of the developer

title Frugalware 0.2pre1 (Aurora) - 2.6.10
kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda3 quiet vga=788
title SAM Linux (/dev/hda2)
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7-2.tmb.6mdk root=/dev/hda2 devfs=nomount acpi=ht

I had to add acpi=ht at the end I tried it without it and it didnt work and with it it worked
so if it worked for this, hope it should work for MDK?

RobNyc · 01-23-2005, 08:57 PM

I tried that for MDK and it didnt work, so what should I have fOr MDK?