First I've removed XP completely (only left the backup partition, provided by Compaq INSTEAD of XP installation CD!) The installation passes very good, even though it didn't recognize the S3 Twister card, it doesn't bother me right now. The problem was after reboot: it didn't boot from hard drive... This weekend I've restored XP from this backup partition (this time I gave it a smaller chunk of the disk, and left half for Linux). BTW: this recovery doesn't recover master boot sector, so I'm using LILO after all... Again RH installation went fine, this time it even boots, but... Just after enabling swap it starts printing "Ooops" and "Can't handle NULL pointer..." A minute later it stops working at all... I've searched the net, but couldn't find any exact info. Just found some hints that might point that VIA chipset and Compaq at general might have had problems with 2.4 kernel... I'll try mandrake soon, we'll see if they have a better kernel.
Thanks, Gregory. -----Original Message----- From: Oded Arbel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:53 AM To: Kovriga, Gregory; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Compaq notebooks and RH7.2 I've had both RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Turbo Linux installed on a Compaq laptop, though it was an Armada (great computer - buy it, if you can find it), and w/o a glitch. the most common laptop installation problem is the graphics adapter. everyone and their dog are using ATi Rage Mobility, but Compaq have recently changed to some kookamy S3 chipset, which isn't well supported even under windows ;-) But that doesn't seem to be your problem. can you desribe the partition setup you used (and the graphics adapter, while your at it). Oded -- Behind every great fortune there is a crime. -- Honore de Balzac ----- Original Message ----- > Hi, everyone. > I've recently spend a couple of days trying to install RH7.2 on Presario > 701EA (don't by it) laptop. Even though the installation goes without errors > or serious issues, there are problems after trying to run: > 1. On reboot the laptop doesn't boot from hard disk. > 2. If using startup diskette, it starts booting Linux, but kernel crashes. > > Any ideas/experience with those laptops? Maybe suggestion as to some other > distro? ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
