I was out having lunch with a computer consultant friend and he said that MS twisted the arms of manufactures to put a bit in their bios so that only VISTA would be recognized. He said on the net you can find patches where you d/l the current bios apply the patch which manipulates 1-bit in the bios that then allows it to recognize and deal with Linux installation. I have no further detail and leave it as an exercise for you to do more sniffing.
Moral to the story for me is that I will not purchase a name brand computer but instead build one from scratch. Or possibly make the dealer give me a written guarantee of a 100% refund if I can't load Linux. Bob On 6/16/07, Michael Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks to all who replied to a previous problem report (Samsung monitor...). I purchased a new box, a Pavilion a6000n, and suffered from 10.1 not being able to see the dvd/cd rom drive to start the install. The splash would come up, but after selecting any of "Installation", "Installation ACPI off", etc. it would invariably say that it did not detect the optical drive. I took the machine back for an exchange (turns out windows would not come up on it either....) and they were nice enough to check the replacement that I could get farther in the process with the new box. Unfortunately, another of the same model got no further, with the same problem. The tech fellow suggested that it might likely be bios settings peculiar to boxes sold with Vista. He recited various stories about bios settings which prevented people from "regressing" machines puchased with Vista pre-installed to XP. As I've never had any prior difficulty installing SuSE over Win2000 nor over XP, and this was my first attempt to install over Vista, it seemed plausible. Unfortunately, I've not the expertise nor inclination to poke around speculatively in that direction. Has anyone else on the list had similar experiences, or applicable wisdom? Many thanks. Michael -- Michael Fischer Happiness is a config option. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recompile and be happy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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