What does the partition table look like? What OSes and on what partitions are they?
Roy Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 1 November 2011 03:17, dc <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > Gentlemen, > > My thanks to all who advised me about desktops. The new machine is > running just fine. > > The current problem is that I bought a laptop as a present for a friend > (HP Pavillion g6 - Costco special :-) ) and neither Opensuse nor Ubuntu > will install. > > The interesting thing is that the Suse installer starts and configures > with no trouble, but the actual installation reports inability to > install the boot loader. Result is a dead machine. > > Can it be that there is some hard-wired demand for Microsoft in the > bios? > > Does anyone have any advice on things to try before I return the machine > as malfunctioning? > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
