I just bought that shiny new hp laptop from Staples which if you're in the UK you'll have seen on TV for the amazing low price of £699 etc. etc.
However, I've tried various 64-bit operating systems (SUSE 10.0 64bit, Kubuntu breezy 64-bit, Fedora C5 64bit)on my hp pavilion 1.8 ghz AMD-64 turion dv5046ea a few times now. They won't install
When I try to install, with SUSE on normal settings the screen just goes black, and on Kubuntu and SUSE on text mode/safe settings I get the error messages further below. I tried fiddling around with a few of the options (using textmode and safe settings), but everything failed, to varying degrees of miserableness.
I know for certain that the media I am using is fine. The DVDs and CDs I have I've checked a few times.
However: I also have e.g. the SUSE 10.0 CDs for the 32-bit version. They install fine!!
Why does the 64-bit version not install but the 32-bit version does? It is rather peculiar.
How can I get it to install?
I would really like to have SUSE 10.0 64bit on my laptop. But if that's not possible, I'd like 64-bit linux *anything* on my laptop, as long as it boots at least the speed of SUSE 10.0 and is fairly user friendly. (I have not tried SUSE 10.1 as the boot times are supposed to be twice as long as for 10.0, as I read in a review for Linux Format magazine)
Thanks.
the error messages,
which were the same for both Kubuntu and SUSE 10.0
2) I tried changing the resolution to Text-mode to see if that would solve the problem. SUSE now started outputting text- good. However, it gave this almost shakesperian message of woe:
Quote:
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found! not found!
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...and then stopped a few lines down at:
Quote:
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
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3) So then on SUSE I tried using "Installation - Safe Settings" along with "Text-mode" resolution, to see if this would turn off acpi and perhaps fix the issue.
It got past the "Subsytem revision 20050408", but this time stopped at:
Quote:
Probing PCI harware (bus00)
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and that was it!
[EDIT]: This post originally appeared in the SUSE forum, but having tried out Kubuntu and seen that the problems were not specific to SUSE, I realised that my question would be better suited to this section. I have deleted the contents of my previous post and ask if the moderators might not penalise me for changing the forum I've asked in.