Hi All,
I have recently been reading up on Linux and was excited to try a few different Distro's But to my dismay every one I tried would just hang and not work. So my question is, Is my computer just not compatible.

I have tried (All were recently downloaded in the past week):
OpenSuse 64 installer cd
OpenSuse Live
both would hang very quickly

Ubuntu 64 - installer cd
Mint 10 Kde
Mint xcfe
all would hang after not to far in.

Mandriva One
Mandriva got the furthest but reported "failed".

Now My computer: Custom assembled.
I7 920
evga motherboard using Intel ICH10 chipset
evga video card using geforce 6500 chip
Bios: Award-phoenix v6.00p6
Audio: realtek hd audio

by the way, the ubuntu, opensuse live, and the mandriva one, all worked great on my laptop. just not on the pc.

Any ideas?
Thanks

Can you see any messages before it hangs ?

Try to install or run it in the mode text or also named verbose mode .
Than we can find out where it hangs and hope fully it comes with error messages

HI, thanks for the response.
Thismorning I tried Mandriva again 4 times. It loaded the boot screen. It auto selected boot live. It displayed loading vmlinuz...., and then loading (another line i couldnt catch). then the screen would turn black and just sit there. I tried it 4 times and it did the same every time.

Next I tried the openSuse live dvd. It would display the Welcome screen. Then it would display the menu screen. I select OpenSuse Live (kde). It popped up a box 'loading kernal'. then the screen would turn black and just sit there.

funny, the Mandriva got further yesterday but not today. Yesterday after loading for a long time it stopped and said "installation failed".

Have you attempted loading a live-CD and checking the hardware detection?
Knoppix is good, but for your situation I might try puppy or DSL.


Whatever you try, make sure that you get back to us with your results. While it is possible that you have somehow created an anti-linux PC, more likely there is just one thing that needs to be tuned or turned off.

Puppy linux worked. lupu_525. I have got to go to work now though, no time to mess with it. I wonder if there is a harware checker on here?
Sean

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

Well, still haven't come up with any real solutions. I am able to use this puppy linux, but I was really wanting a 64 bit O.S. like Ubuntu or Mandriva. But they still just hang. I tried the link and it all checked out ok. not sure what to do from here.
Sean

Adding some commands when booting may help, don't know if this is one of those cases though, we don't know what the exact problem is.

For example some PCs needs to add an "acpi=off" command to boot ok (generally old PCs).

There is a similar thread going on for i7 processor, may be of some help :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rboard-876305/


Regards

Try to add boot options related to display and KMS mode setting

If one of the CD's uses Grub (as the boot menu) :

Select the system you want to boot
Enter E instead of ENTER
Select the line that begins with 'kernel' (usually the longest one)
Enter E again
Add (space) nomodeset to the end of the line
Enter ENTER
Enter B

If one of the CD's uses ISOlinux (as the boot menu) :

If there are keys for boot options available, see what is in there
Try to enter system_name nomodeset in the boot: line
system_name is the name mentioned in all boot options in the boot options screen (Usually 'linux' / 'fedora' / etc)

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Right: to make the point here: you have proven that your machine WILL RUN LINUX!
Now it is just a matter of finding the right Linux distribution, and the right settings, to give you the desktop that you need.

This may be non-trivial in terms of time. There are a LOT of possible settings and potential problems, but now you KNOW you can succeed. If it were impossible, then Puppy would not run.

Take your time, be patient, and know that if you thing that you have run out of options: there are people here willing to provide another suggestion to try.

Let us know what works, but (perhaps even more important) what you try that fails. Waht does NOT work may give important clues about what WILL.

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