On 25/09/06, Mace Eliason meliason@shaw.ca wrote:

Hi,

I have been trying to install Centos 4.4 on my laptop with no success. I have just purchased a new Acer 5100 laptop with AMD Turion 64x2 1Gig ram 120Gig HD.

I have tried the 64bit and the 32 bit versions but have the same problem with both of them. I can do the complete install but when the computer reboot it will hang on the hardware detection on the network right after where it says Centos 4.4 final. I have let it sit for about 20min and it won't pass that point.

I have also tried Fedora code 5 with the same results. Ubuntu 6.06.1 64 bit installs and works fine but will lock up randomly and requires a hard reboot.

If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.

Will it boot single user mode? At the grub prompt hit a key, hit 'e' to go into edit on the kernel line and append 'single'.

Try the non-SMP kernel if it's defaulted to SMP. Try various boot options, noapic seems to help a few people, see if any of them give you any joy...

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-inst...

Will.