GG 7.10 refuses to boot on Asus M2N-X Plus mobo

[joris abadie]

HI,
sorry for my poor english
I have to an asus, and it was impossible with ubuntu,xubuntu....
I find the solution with two things :
1 - I change the R.A.M (I put kingstom memory, the same value)
2 - I change in the bios the parameter in the hard disk
With the two actes when I try ubuntu work in my Asus
so I try again with xubuntu, kubuntu, ... and again it is work fine

2008/6/15 Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr>:
> I've just built my first machine from scratch, and the components are below,
> if they have any relevance.
> Asus M2N-X Plus nVidia GeForce-6100/ nForce 430 motherboard
> AMD Athlon 64 3800 Socket AM2 2.4GHz CPU
> Crucial Ballistix 2x1GB PC6400-800MHz memory
> No onboard graphics card, so installed the one below.
> Asus EAX1550 SILENT/HTD/512M | ATI Radeon X1550 - 512 Mb DDR2 -PCI Express
>
> Maxtor 160GB SATA harddrive (for the OS's)
> Western Digital 250GB SATA harddrive (for Data)
>
> LITE-ON DH-20A4P-06C IDE optical drive
>
> That over with, the first distro I tried to install was Kubuntu Gutsy Gibbon
> 7.10. It starts to bootup, with the blue bar swinging from side to side, then
> the blue bar starts to work it's way from the left side, like it's actually
> loading the system, but then abruptly stops, screen goes black, and a few
> seconds later, the screen displays 4 repeated bits of underlined text in a
> deep pink colour. I can't read what it says, even with my strong glasses, but
> would seem to be some error message. Tried another option on the bootup menu,
> but same results.
>
> Ok. Try another distro. Fedora 8 installs ok, but won't bootup, which is
> another story, now resolved by saying no to various services being started in
> the boot process.
>
> Fedora 8 won't boot, so I try with my only other Kubuntu disk, the Breezy one.
> I dl'd both the live cd, and the install cd for Breezy, and using the install
> cd Breezy installs ok. All I had to change was the graphics driver, changing
> it to vesa, as the ati one probably wasn't up to date enough for the ati
> graphics card. Anyway Breezy installed ok, and I have an instance of Breezy
> updated to Dapper on another machine, and have saved the cache
> in /var/cache/apt/archives, so it will be no problem to update this instance
> of Breezy to Dapper, and Dapper works just fine.
>
> Now Gutsy Gibbon is basically a live CD which when booted up gives you the
> option to install the distro from a desktop icon. So I tried Knoppix, which
> as we know is a live CD. Now I needed to fix the F8 bootup problem, and as
> Fedora 8's Grub was in the MBR, and Breezy's Grub was in it's root partition,
> I couldn't initially boot Breezy before adding a chainloader entry to F8's
> grub.conf. Anyway Knoppix booted ok, and I was able to make the changes to
> F8's grub.conf, and was able to boot Breezy post-install.
>
> I do have Gutsy Gibbon installed on another machine, an older I-Friend (circa
> 2003), with a cyberbladei1 (trident) graphics card. No problem with the
> install at all, apart from the usual stuff like setting screen resolution for
> example.
>
> The question is, why won't Gutsy Gibbon bootup on the machine with the Asus
> mobo? Has anyone with the same or similar mobo been able to install Gutsy
> Gibbon 7.10?
>
> I must say that initially I could not boot anything on this mobo, and got
> complaints about acpi, suggesting acpi-debug, and sending a report, then try
> with noapic. I looked in the BIOS, and disabled acpi, and after that F8
> installed ok, and Knoppix, and Finnix would boot up.
>
> Sorry for my usual rambling on, but I'm a bit lost as to why GG won't boot up.
>
> Thanks as usual for any help.
>
> Nigel. Weather mild in northern france, and just about to take the dog for
> walkies.
>
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