Slack 12.1 spontaneously halts during installation

xdunlapx · 11-09-2008, 03:04 AM

I have no idea what the cause is, but every time I try to install slack 12.1 via cd it gets a few sections into installing packages and then the computer just shuts down like i hit the off switch. The computer doesn't seem to be getting hot or anything.

I tried with the regular kernel huge.smp and huge.s, no change in problem.

I've got an Acer Aspire 7720 notebook. I've never had this problem before, with any distro i've tried to install. All in all I've tried over 50 distros, and never had this happen, only with Slack. I really want to try slack but i'm just plain unable to.

I couldn't find a 'bugzilla' or other type of bug-reporting area for slack so I came here.

Any other info you need I will try to provide.

I will try to get it up and running in virtualbox here soon. I'm currently installing Ubuntu 8.04 LTS as my go-to distro. (although I'm not fond of the bloat).

Thanks!!

Brittany Dunlap

H_TeXMeX_H · 11-09-2008, 03:26 AM

First make sure you burned the CD correctly.

Then, maybe try booting it with the "acpi=off" option, at the boot prompt put in:

Code:

huge.s acpi=off

xdunlapx · 11-09-2008, 04:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H_TeXMeX_H

First make sure you burned the CD correctly.

Then, maybe try booting it with the "acpi=off" option, at the boot prompt put in:

Code:

huge.s acpi=off

I did try huge.s without acpi=off and it had the same problem. I will try acpi=off soon.

Thanks,
Brittany

xdunlapx · 01-01-2009, 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xdunlapx

I did try huge.s without acpi=off and it had the same problem. I will try acpi=off soon.

Thanks,
Brittany

Sorry for the delay but I found out my usb ports are not working properly. I was using a simple wireless mouse and somehow that was causing all of the problems I was experiencing including slackware 12.1 installation to fail by seemingly random halts.

My other problems seemed to be RAM failures but indeed it wasn't. My usb ports do not work right with any kind of mouse other than a basic usb optical mouse.

Thanks for your help!

Brittany

xdunlapx · 05-09-2011, 04:22 AM

I just checked my old subscriptions (this was one of them). I found out that my computer was defective. It was overheating a lot. It was causing the forced shutdowns and the mouse issues. I will never again buy an Acer laptop. Ick! I now have a dell and have no problems using slackware. Just thought I'd update this in case someone finds it via google.