Using Installation mode with APCI disabled

jrattner1 · 07-25-2005, 12:21 AM

When installing linux on this laptop I'm forced to use the APCI disabled installation program. Everything goes smoothly and after all the packages are installed I'm prompted that the system will now reboot and enter the configuration process afterwards. The problem is my system reboots and then when it tries to load SuSE off the hardrive the screen just blanks, any clues?

abisko00 · 07-27-2005, 04:26 AM

Can you switch to a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1-6)? Are there no messages before? Try another resolution (type vga=<value> on the initial grub screen).

Code:

    | 640x480  800x600  1024x768 1280x1024
----+-------------------------------------
256 |  0x301    0x303    0x305    0x307   
32k |  0x310    0x313    0x316    0x319   
64k |  0x311    0x314    0x317    0x31A   
16M |  0x312    0x315    0x318    0x31B

Instead of using acpi=off, you could also try pci=noacpi, which helps in some cases. See http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/10/81_acpi.html for more info.