[CentOS] Can t load Centos 5 on laptop

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Sat Apr 21 23:25:23 UTC 2007


did you try passing noapic to the kernel when yous tarted the install?

Paul wrote:
> On Sat, April 21, 2007 8:08 pm, Matt Martz wrote:
>> On Sat, April 21, 2007 4:09 pm, Paul wrote:
>>> I can load Centos 4.4 fine, but 5 won't even begin to load, it can't
>>> even
>>> read the kernel from the CD.  I got another cheaper laptop, and that one
>>> loads fine with Centos 5, the same DVD I try in the Pro-star laptop.
>>> What
>>> would cause that?  I've never seen it before.  I'm trying to load DVD
>>> x86
>>> 32bit DVD.  Thanks.
>>>
>> I ran into this problem extensively with FC6 which RHEL5/CentOS5 is
>> equivalent to for the most part.
>>
>> When you get to the "boot" prompt type some random characters and hit
>> enter.  For example type "kjsdflkjsalkfjsalkdjf" and press enter.  It will
>> give you an error.  Then type "linux" and press enter or just press enter.
>>  It should work just fine now.  I don't know what causes it but I read in
>> on fedoraforums.org some time ago and no one had an answer.
>>
>> The guy who found the solution actually typed in some nice words and
>> pressed enter because he was pissed.  Then hit enter again and it worked.
>>
>> Let me know if this worked becuase I am sure others will run into the same
>> problem if it is what I think it is.
> 
> It didn't work.  ;(
> 
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