Re: problem installing edubuntu

Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007, Robert Alcock wrote:
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>> Any more ideas?
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> It's also possible the irqpoll thing is a red herring.
>
> If you can't get a machine to boot the linux kernel, in my experience it's
> always worth trying booting with:
>
>       noapic acpi=off
>
> and in your case possibly
>
>       noapic acpi=off irqpoll
>
> Gavin
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I forgot to say that a bar saying "loading Linux Kernel 0-100%" appears 
before any of these messages. Also, a message (which I missed before) 
pops up for about 1/10 second just before the machine crashes, saying 
"Trying to enable the frame buffer..."

I got the boot options wrong before because some of them were hidden. 
The full list is as follows:

file=/crdom/preseed/edubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/ram rw quiet --


I put "irqpoll" before the --, and also at the very beginning of the 
options list; it made no difference.

I put "noapic acpi=off" in the options list. That got rid of the four 
lines about irqpoll (hurrah!), but everything else was the same: i.e. it 
now said

starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd

followed by

Trying to enable the frame buffer...

and it crashed.


If I do the same thing but without the "quiet", so the options list is 
as follows

file=/crdom/preseed/edubuntu.seed initrd=/install/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16384 
root=/dev/ram rw noapic acpi=off --

Then I get reams of stuff that I don't understand, followed by

starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd

The screen goes blank again, up pops

Trying to enable the frame buffer...


The rest is silence.



Robert