Author Topic: Uncompressing Linux...Ok, booting the kernel (Read 16349 times)

^Black · « **on:** March 08, 2007, 03:17:23 am »

I'm trying to install Ubuntu 6.06 on a compaq, yes it meets the requirements. The ubuntu installation freezes here.
I've tried everything, any ideas?

Undeference · « **Reply #1 on:** March 08, 2007, 03:18:26 am »

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ would probably be the place to ask

^Black · « **Reply #2 on:** March 08, 2007, 03:22:08 am »

Tried that :-?

Lobster · « **Reply #3 on:** March 08, 2007, 03:45:38 am »

I did an instalation of Ubuntu 6.10 on a Compaq Presario V2000 for someone and had the same problem. If the live-cd menu is able to come up try the safe graphics mode, that is what worked for me when I tried the second time.

^Black · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2007, 10:36:35 am »

Thanks! That worked for me as well...though now I have a nonmoving cursor on a blacnk red screen

Lava Croft · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2007, 10:55:24 am »

I would suggest you start using MicroSoft Windows instead of that retarded Linux. Everybody knows Linux is only being used by complete morons. Windows is a real OS. At least their screens are blue, like water, and not red, like the lifeblood Linux sucks out of you.

^Black · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2007, 11:16:20 am »

Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.

Lava Croft · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2007, 11:55:08 am »

Quote from: "^Black"

Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.

Get a job you slacking hippie.

TinMan · « **Reply #8 on:** March 08, 2007, 12:09:45 pm »

WTf my screenshots are green and black, no red in there.

Taiyo.uk · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2007, 12:25:53 pm »

Aah yes, the joys of Linux installation. You need a stone altar and a live herring. You must sacrifice the herring to appease the mighty Dreadlord Tux. He might grant you a successful installation, but he normally just pecks your eyes out and craps in your mouth.

I may be a Linux fanboy but the installation is still a joke in many cases. For a given macchine, some distros work, others crash completely, some just stop part way through.

For example, my old fileserver had a VIA M10000 itx board. It's been around for a while, and kernel driver support for the hardware is there. Mandrivel 2006 installed fine, Fedora Crap 6 installed flawlessly too. Unbuntu 6.06? No. Stops on both graphical and text-based installs. Remains responsive, but the install just stops. Not even a clue-bearing error message. Wonderful.

The FLOSS hippies still wonder why it's not "the year of the Linux desktop" too. Sigh.

</rant>

If you can't find a simple fix out there, then all you can do is file a bug report with Ubuntu and use a distro that'll install. Welcome to crapland.

David · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2007, 01:03:33 pm »

The box I use as a file server paused for more than half an hour during the install. No idea why. I've always found the alt cd to be better, don't have to wait for the stupid GUI to get the install going.

Lava Croft · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2007, 02:32:36 pm »

Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"

Aah yes, the joys of Linux installation. You need a stone altar and a live herring. You must sacrifice the herring to appease the mighty Dreadlord Tux. He might grant you a successful installation, but he normally just pecks your eyes out and craps in your mouth.

I think I'm falling in love...

Stof · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2007, 03:04:19 pm »

Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"

Aah yes, the joys of Linux installation. You need a stone altar and a live herring. You must sacrifice the herring to appease the mighty Dreadlord Tux. He might grant you a successful installation, but he normally just pecks your eyes out and craps in your mouth.

I may be a Linux fanboy but the installation is still a joke in many cases. For a given macchine, some distros work, others crash completely, some just stop part way through.

For example, my old fileserver had a VIA M10000 itx board. It's been around for a while, and kernel driver support for the hardware is there. Mandrivel 2006 installed fine, Fedora Crap 6 installed flawlessly too. Unbuntu 6.06? No. Stops on both graphical and text-based installs. Remains responsive, but the install just stops. Not even a clue-bearing error message. Wonderful.

The FLOSS hippies still wonder why it's not "the year of the Linux desktop" too. Sigh.

</rant>

If you can't find a simple fix out there, then all you can do is file a bug report with Ubuntu and use a distro that'll install. Welcome to crapland.

I'd like to see you install a standard Windows XP on a SATA only computer once. It could prove interesting

Or even better, on a computer with both a main SATA disk and a secondary IDE disk.

Taiyo.uk · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2007, 03:32:12 pm »

I'd rather try to install a hand grenade in my arse.

Stof · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2007, 04:06:06 pm »

Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"

I'd rather try to install a hand grenade in my arse.

Just don't forget to pull the pin before, it is easier than doing it after

Lava Croft · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2007, 04:36:27 pm »

Quote from: "Stof"

Quote from: "Taiyo.uk"
I'd rather try to install a hand grenade in my arse.

Just don't forget to pull the pin before, it is easier than doing it after

Can't you do it afterwards? With your teeth?

Taiyo.uk · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2007, 04:50:47 pm »

Now that's what I call a challenge!

Shadowgandor · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2007, 06:07:13 pm »

lol, but btw, could someone tell me what the pros and cons of linux are above windows

Taiyo.uk · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2007, 06:31:19 pm »

DON'T EVEN GO THERE.

Shadowgandor · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2007, 06:46:33 pm »

ow srry, pros only then :wink:

Taiyo.uk · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2007, 07:17:38 pm »

Well, where do we start? Oh yes, many distros almost have a working installer.

TinMan · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2007, 09:42:16 pm »

http://cityblogger.com/archives/2007/01/24/101-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-windows
This gives pros on why you'd switch to it from Windows, which is what you may be doing.

Lobster · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2007, 10:36:37 pm »

Have you heard of installing Ubuntu 6.10 from inside a running version of Microsoft Windows?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows

TinMan · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2007, 11:20:25 pm »

I have. I've installed both Debian and Ubuntu from within Windows XP to test out the "installer.exe"/"goodbye-microsoft" program.
It worked fine, but it gave the new OS a lot of my Windows stuff that I was going to change, such as hostname...all things that were changeable but a bit of an annoyance to find out all the things it stole from my windows install. XD

::ThePredator · « **Reply #24 on:** March 09, 2007, 03:04:19 am »

Might I suggest PCBSD, so much easier than install ubuntu, hell it was voted easiest to install OS (yes, easier than windows) in some magazine or another.

http://www.pcbsd.org/

^Black · « **Reply #25 on:** March 09, 2007, 03:40:42 am »

Quote from: "Lava Croft"

Quote from: "^Black"
Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.

Get a job you slacking hippie.

I'm 14.

p0m · « **Reply #26 on:** March 09, 2007, 04:18:41 am »

Back on topic..

Try disabling the APCI before booting into the live cd, it will be an option before you load the live cd.

Shadowgandor · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2007, 07:59:26 am »

i read the page with all the pros of linux, thx but no thx. Basicly, it's not a gaming os but a work os, which doesn't sound appealing to me

Ow well, just my 2cents

Lava Croft · « **Reply #28 on:** March 09, 2007, 10:27:44 am »

Quote from: "^Black"

Quote from: "Lava Croft"
Quote from: "^Black"
Thanks for the help Lava, and ill gladly take that advice as soon as you send me the 100 bucks needed for the NON free XP.

Get a job you slacking hippie.

I'm 14.

And? You can deliver newspapers, or work in a supermarket.

^Black · « **Reply #29 on:** March 09, 2007, 10:55:05 am »

I work at a computer repair shop...its illegal to pay me

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