Cannot install linux on my HP Probook 4510S

Maria Militsi militsim at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 23:23:11 GMT 2010


Και να δεις Αλέξη, που θα έχεις και δίκιο... Χρειάζονται πάντα δύο
προσπάθειες για να ξεκινήσει ο υπολογιστής.... Ποιός ξέρει τι πήγα και
αγόρασα :-D
Κυψέλη μένω :-)

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 17:25 +0200, Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis wrote:

> I am beggining to think that there is something wrong with the laptop,
> where do you live by the way?
> This is a really good puzzle!
> 
> Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis 
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> 2010/2/15 Maria <militsim at gmail.com>
> 
>         Dear friends,
>         thank you very much for your great support on this problem.
>         Alexi, I tried to install the alternate Ubuntu edition through
>         the link you provided. 
>         The installation went through just fine up until the disk
>         partitioning stage, but the "Installing the base system"step
>         was unable to complete. I kept getting all sorts of "error",
>         "file corrupt" and "cannot retrieve file" messages. I started
>         all over again many times until I had to abort this step. The
>         following installation steps were unable to begin, since base
>         system had not been installed.
>         When I booted my laptop once more I got the message "Non
>         system disk or disk error. Enter a disc and press enter when
>         you are ready" etc. This is (I think) because I had asked for
>         the Ubuntu installation to use the entire disk, so windows
>         vista were gone, luckily :)
>         Then I thought I would try the Ubuntu 7.10 edition cd again,
>         thinking that maybe at this stage it would work.
>         Unfortunately, once more installation was aborted without any
>         messages. The computer just stopped right after a few minutes
>         and went blank. I tried all the different boot parameters
>         Nikos suggested, to no avail.
>         Then I thought, why don't I try Open Suse once more? :) Maybe,
>         this one will work.
>         And, it did!! So, after 3 days and 4 nights of struggling, I
>         have Open Suse on my laptop -unfortunately not Ubuntu- but yet
>         again Linux :)
>         Alexi, Niko, Stergio, Argiri kai Savva sas efharisto poly,
>         THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
>         By the way, Argiri, I had tried installing with both the
>         laptop battery on and off :)
>         All the best to all of you!!
>         Counting on you,
>         Maria 
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         On 02/14/2010 05:17 PM, Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis wrote: 
>         
>         > Εεεε αυτο ειναι!!!!
>         > 
>         > Δε μπορει να καταδεχτει ενα σοβαρο λειτουργικο οπως π.χ. το
>         > Ubuntu να κάτσει στο ίδιο μηχάνημα με τα Vista!!!!
>         > 
>         > Αν θες παντος βοήθεια μπορεις να συμβουλευτεις το
>         > http://www.howtoforge.com με τους οδηγους (The Perfect
>         > Desktop)
>         > 
>         > προσωπικα θα σου προτεινα αν ειναι new να δοκιμασεις
>         > Mandriva PowerPack με KDE ή Ubuntu.
>         > 
>         > Best of Luck και οτι θες εδω ειμαστε ολοι.
>         > 
>         > Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis 
>         > IT Consultant / Core Banking Eng.
>         > 
>         > m: +30 6944 915 876 
>         > e: alexius.dionysius at diakogiannis.com
>         > w: http://www.diakogiannis.com
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>         > 
>         > 2010/2/15 Maria Militsi <militsim at gmail.com> 
>         > 
>         >         Γεια σου Αλέξη και ευχαριστώ πολύ εσένα και όλα τα
>         >         παιδιά για τη βοήθειά σας.
>         >         
>         >         Δυστυχώς δεν ξέρω τι είναι το sata raid και δεν έχω
>         >         πειράξει τίποτα. 
>         >         
>         >         Έκανα όλα τα system diagnostics tests και όλα είναι
>         >         οκ! Αν αυτό σημαίνει κάτι… J
>         >         
>         >         Τώρα λέω να ακολουθήσω τη συμβουλή του Νίκου και να
>         >         αλλάξω τα bios parameters, μήπως κάτι γίνει.
>         >         
>         >         Το pc έχει προς το παρόν vista. 
>         >         
>         >         Δεν μπορώ ούτε να τα βλέπω αυτά τα windows L
>         >         
>         >          
>         >         
>         >         From: ubuntu-gr-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>         >         [mailto:ubuntu-gr-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On
>         >         Behalf Of Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis
>         >         Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 1:36 PM
>         >         To: Nikolaos Papazoglou
>         >         Cc: ubuntu-gr at lists.ubuntu.com
>         >         Subject: Re: Cannot install linux on my HP Probook
>         >         4510S
>         >         
>         >         
>         >          
>         >         
>         >         Hi, 
>         >         
>         >         This is really strange, can you provide more
>         >         details? Its sound like a disk issue, do you by any
>         >         chance have activated the SATA RAID option on your
>         >         BIOS (if you have one) because once I have similar
>         >         issue and it was due to the fact of the OS not
>         >         beeing able to communicate with HD.
>         >         
>         >         Anyway best of luck!
>         >         
>         >         Alexius Dionysius Diakogiannis 
>         >         IT Consultant / Core Banking Eng.
>         >         
>         >         m: +30 6944 915 876 
>         >         e: alexius.dionysius at diakogiannis.com
>         >         w: http://www.diakogiannis.com
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Nikolaos
>         >         Papazoglou <npapazoglou at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >         
>         >         Hi,
>         >         I found great support with Fedora Linux on my
>         >         netbook .
>         >         Fedora is fast and lighweight and improved my
>         >         battery's life also.
>         >         My 3G broadband works fine and all my hardware
>         >         too...
>         >         Just have a look at
>         >         http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         
>         >         2010/2/14 Savvas Radevic <vicedar at gmail.com>
>         >         
>         >         
>         >                  
>         >                 
>         >                 Hi Maria!
>         >                 
>         >                 
>         >                 > I have been using Ubuntu for three years
>         >                 on my older Toshiba laptop, which I
>         >                 > had to replace.
>         >                 
>         >                 
>         >                 Which Ubuntu edition were you using?
>         >                 
>         >                 And as a last resort, if you can't make it
>         >                 with mandriva nor ubuntu,
>         >                 you can also try with opensuse, it has great
>         >                 support for laptops:
>         >                 http://www.opensuse.org
>         >                 
>         >                 Download the 32-bit DVD (3.7GB) or the "Live
>         >                 Gnome" (a 700MB CD).
>         >                 
>         >                 
>         >                 On 14 February 2010 22:17, Maria Militsi
>         >                 <militsim at gmail.com> wrote:
>         >                 > Hi!
>         >                 >
>         >                 > I would like to report a problem I am
>         >                 having trying to install Ubuntu on my
>         >                 > HP probook 4510s laptop.
>         >                 >
>         >                 > I have used both wiki and a cd and the
>         >                 installation stops right after the
>         >                 > ubuntu logo appears and then there is only
>         >                 a black screen.
>         >                 >
>         >                 > I know very little about computers. Could
>         >                 you help me with this?
>         >                 >
>         >                 > I have tried Mandriva and Linux Mint as
>         >                 well and encountered the same
>         >                 > problem.
>         >                 >
>         >                 
>         >                 >
>         >                 
>         >                 
>         >                 > Could this be a hardware incompatibility
>         >                 problem?
>         >                 >
>         >                 > Thank you for your time,
>         >                 >
>         >                 > Maria
>         >                 >
>         >                 
>         >                 
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