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

[Asuka Langley]

Hello

First of all, try to install it from the alternate install disc (I suppose
you can find that where to download it.) If it still fails, you can try
Kubuntu 8.04 (Or Fedora 9, what I dont prefer too much..(yepp, I tried it).

ps.: why? why Ati? You really want to use Linux?.. :) Other thought: Use WD
for sys, and Maxtor for storage. By the way Maxtor dies faster, and its like
living on the edge.. so good luck in loosing your data.. :))

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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