install woes

[NoOp]

On 07/30/2008 08:01 AM, Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008 18:03, whoosh wrote:
>> I now have Fedora 9 functioning by putting acpi=off at the end of the
>> command line.
>>
>> suggested by someone on their list.
>>
>>
>> is there some way to try this with Ubuntu Desktop?
> 
> Ok the screen for the language with "Enter", then if you see the same as me, 
> click on the "6" option, which will give you a kernel line, and just add 
> acpi=off before the 2 - - which are at the end of the line. Also remove the 
> "quiet splash" bit, and you can see what's going on when it boots then.
> 
> Nigel.

I would also add 'nodma'.

I'm currently cleaning up a discarded box and seldom find a box that I
can't get Knoppix to boot. However, even Knoppix would freeze part way
through the boot. I finally added nodma and the box booted up just
fine... it's now running Ubuntu with no problems :-)