On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:47 AM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2008 13:56, km wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, jtd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:09, km wrote:
> > > > > how
> > > > >
> > > > > > to set the boot options.
> > > > >
> > > > > In K/Ubuntu, at the initial boot options gui list, hit the F6
> > > > > key and add whatever options you want to add, at the blinking
> > > > > cursor. In this case noapic.
> > > >
> > > > Thank you everyone for replying..
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > hey Rony, i tried the F6 option and entered "noapic" at the
> > > > prompt that popped up.. Just appended "noapic" after the string
> > > > that was already there ending in "--"
> > > > But it did not work; again showed the same error lines.
> > >
> > > at the end of the line type
> > > noapic nolapic
> > >
> > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions?highlight=%28bootop
> > >tions%29
> > >
> > > should help.
> >
> > It sure does, thanks.
> >
> > > BTW what mobo? what cpu?.
> > > ALWAYS before you start an install get the hardware details.
> >
> > Thank you all again for replying.
> > The mobo and cpu are Asus M2NE and AMD 3600+ respectively.
> >
> > Are there any specific issues related with this hardware?
>
> Yes. The MCP61 chipset apic does not play well with linux. But works
> very well otherwise.
>
So, does the M2NE board come with this chipset, i am sorry,
i don't know anything about these hardware components.
Is it not possible to use Linux on that hardware? :(
This would surely turn away many who just want to try out
Linux and would have added up to the Linux user-base
otherwise.
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Regards
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km
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