Install crashes at hardware scan, Dell Inspiron.

[Dick Dowdell]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Matthew Dougherty <mdougher at inch.com>wrote:

> I've tried several things.   Booting up with LTS, I can get a shell with
> alt-ctrl-f2.   How can I step through to diagnose exactly what hardware
> crashes the installation?
>
> I've tried 12.10, 12.04, 11.x and Fedora and they all crash and tracedump
> at hardware scan in installation.  The tracedump takes over the screen and
> I can't scroll to see exactly what the issue is.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm using a thumbdrive install now hoping that because it's not read only
> I can do something to step through the install.
>
> Matt.
>
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Hi,

Is there any chance that you are trying to install 64-bit OSs on a 32-bit
machine?

Regards,
Dick Dowdell
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