[plug] installing linux.

[Meryon Montgomery]

when i've played with this chepset I've had to disable acpi in the bios
and ensure that it wasn't enabled in the kernel/boot parameters. Made my
intro to Gentoo a bit more interesting.

Monts

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:58 +0800, chris sisman wrote:
> I have a RS480 motherboard with 2 hard drives both 80 gig. running win xp.
> I have tried installing Mandriva. Suse10.xandros.and ubuntu.
> The only one to install was Ubuntu but with a command prompt instead of 
> grafical interface.And when prommpted to reboot.....failed to.
> And blocked xp.
> On advice from a plug member I installed the extra hard drive but made 
> no difference. only to my wallet.
> I had to reinstall xp to get into my box.
> Any advice? Is it my motherboard blocking linux. The people who 
> installed it say no (the computer says no) I have had it before when I 
> had 98. Mandrake worked then.
> Help please guys.  chris from albany.
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