mike morrison wrote: > I'm trying to install "Lenny" onto an HP Pavilion dv6t-1000 CTO > Entertainment notebook PC, P/N NB636AV with: System board ID, 3627; > Intel Itanium Core 2 Duo CPU, P8600 @2GHz; BIOS version F.22. > > I've tried every CD-based installation available, ending with > professionally produced DVD's; no joy! The BIOS/CMOS recognizes the > DVD in the drive, but absolutely refuses to boot from it. Instead, > the screen clears, the cursor performs a newline, then, nothing; the > PC hangs. Apparently, the BIOS is the problem. > > I've asked HP for help and they've flat out refused to support the > effort. > > Next, I'll try network installation and Linux within Windows. But, > I'd rather a straight boot -- anybody got any suggestions? > >
Friend, you do not have an itanium/ia64 system, you have an amd64/x86-64/em64t system. You've got the wrong CD image for your computer. From http://www.debian.org/ports/ : IA-64 ("ia64") <http://www.debian.org/ports/ia64/> First officially released with Debian 3.0. This is a port to Intel's first 64-bit architecture. Note: this should /not/ be confused with the latest Intel 64-bit extensions for Pentium 4 and Celeron processors, called EM64T; for these, see the AMD64 <http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/> port. ... AMD64 ("amd64") <http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/> First officially released with Debian 4.0. Port to the 64 bit AMD64 processors. The goal is to support both 32bit- and 64bit-userland on this architecture. This port supports AMD's 64-bit Opteron, Athlon and Sempron processors, and Intel's processors with EM64T support, including the Pentium D and various Xeon and *Core2 *series. Good luck. Brian Szymanski
