Samsung Q310 - unable to boot up with Red Hat or Ubuntu - Vista already installed
 

I purchased a Samsung Q310 with Vista pre-installed. I wanted to have it dual boot with a linux distro from Oracle based on Red Hat (Version 5.1.19.6). The install completed but every time it tries to boot into Linux, a screen flashes up with the login prompt and then the laptop shuts down and goes into reboot mode again.
I thought it might be the Oracle distro but I downloaded ubuntu 64-bit and get the same problem.
Getting quite desperate now to find out if I've wasted my money buying this laptop.

Anyone had a similar experience and its some option i need to include on the initrd command?

Spec of laptop:
- Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.4 Ghz
- 4 GB RAM
- NVidia GeForce 9200M GS

Also get this message;

PCI Bios Bug: MCFG area of...is not E820-reserved
PCI:not using MMCONFIG

Any help appreciated.

Russ

I've just discovered the problem - I had to add acpi=off on the kernel line.

If anyone else has this issue, here's the solution.

Here i find solution:
http://forums.opensuse.org/install-b...-acpi-off.html

at the menu.lst - mem=4G

For me fix all problems with ACPI