Installing Core 1 on HP notebook

[David S. Johnson]

Devjit Gopalpur wrote:

> I am trying to install Core 1. Config is AMD Athlon-XP(M) 1.87 GHz, 
> 192 MB RAM + 64 MB shared video mem, 15" XGA TFT with ATI Radeon card. 
> I dont seem to be able to proceed with the installation after the 
> kernel image is uncompressed from boot CD, in either text or graphics 
> mode. Is this a problem with drivers/resolution? I would appreciate 
> any help/suggestions/insight.
>
My experience also, in fact I was unable to boot rescue off the CD 
either.  I have no resolution to the problem of hanging while loading 
the boot image off the CD, but I do have a workaround. 

Use the boot CD, but at the initial prompt, enter "linux askmethod 
acpi=on" (for rescue, "linux askmethod rescue acpi=on").  When prompted 
for the boot method, choose one of the methods other than CD.  These 
will require advance setup to place the contents of all the installation 
CDs in the place you indicate for booting, e.g. on disk if loading from 
disk, or as an NFS share, if you choose that method.  Directions for 
setting these up are in the README file on the first CD.

I had great success using the NFS method.

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