I'm installing F8 on my second laptop (finally getting rid of bloody Windows - sorry for the language but this has truely given me the shits no end! And HP will only talk to you if you have it on the system! They're crazy people - it could be hardware thats the problem but they will insist Windows will fix it with their "magic" software... (you'll have to excuse my ranting but this is really a sore point!)) and the process is really slow to even get to the install - first it stops at running /sbin/loader, then it stops again before anaconda installer.
I had this prob last time, but I thought it might be the disk. This is a completely fresh disk- I only just burnt it. I've run media check and it comes up ok too. It seems to be locked loading modules, and where it slows is on the loop module, and takes hours at the pcmcia module.
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When you install try setting noapic and/or nolapic as kernel parameters. I've seen it before where that resolves the slowness
-Scott
Da Rock wrote:
I'm installing F8 on my second laptop (finally getting rid of bloody Windows - sorry for the language but this has truely given me the shits no end! And HP will only talk to you if you have it on the system! They're crazy people - it could be hardware thats the problem but they will insist Windows will fix it with their "magic" software... (you'll have to excuse my ranting but this is really a sore point!)) and the process is really slow to even get to the install - first it stops at running /sbin/loader, then it stops again before anaconda installer.
I had this prob last time, but I thought it might be the disk. This is a completely fresh disk- I only just burnt it. I've run media check and it comes up ok too. It seems to be locked loading modules, and where it slows is on the loop module, and takes hours at the pcmcia module.
Any ideas? _________________________________________________________________ New music from the Rogue Traders - listen now! http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=832&am...
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:23 +0000, Da Rock wrote:
I'm installing F8 on my second laptop (finally getting rid of bloody Windows - sorry for the language but this has truely given me the shits no end! And HP will only talk to you if you have it on the system! They're crazy people - it could be hardware thats the problem but they will insist Windows will fix it with their "magic" software... (you'll have to excuse my ranting but this is really a sore point!)) and the process is really slow to even get to the install - first it stops at running /sbin/loader, then it stops again before anaconda installer.
I had this prob last time, but I thought it might be the disk. This is a completely fresh disk- I only just burnt it. I've run media check and it comes up ok too. It seems to be locked loading modules, and where it slows is on the loop module, and takes hours at the pcmcia module.
Any ideas?
I wish you luck... I ended up scrapping the HP and buying another (non-hp) computer. Seems like the Compaq folks have infected HP's design philosophy, which is weird because Compaq failed and HP bought them for a song due to the way they treated customers with their software and proprietary Windows setups. I just will NEVER buy or recommend an HP ever again. Fool me once....
Regards, Les H
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:23 +0000, Da Rock wrote:
I'm installing F8 on my second laptop (finally getting rid of bloody Windows - sorry for the language but this has truely given me the shits no end! And HP will only talk to you if you have it on the system! They're crazy people - it could be hardware thats the problem but they will insist Windows will fix it with their "magic" software... (you'll have to excuse my ranting but this is really a sore point!)) and the process is really slow to even get to the install - first it stops at running /sbin/loader, then it stops again before anaconda installer.
I had this prob last time, but I thought it might be the disk. This is a completely fresh disk- I only just burnt it. I've run media check and it comes up ok too. It seems to be locked loading modules, and where it slows is on the loop module, and takes hours at the pcmcia module.
Any ideas?
I wish you luck... I ended up scrapping the HP and buying another (non-hp) computer. Seems like the Compaq folks have infected HP's design philosophy, which is weird because Compaq failed and HP bought them for a song due to the way they treated customers with their software and proprietary Windows setups. I just will NEVER buy or recommend an HP ever again. Fool me once....
Regards, Les H
I had three HP laptops and I have had a couple of good experiences with HP repair dealing mostly with the flaky power connections on a Z 5000 series laptop. I also have a network of desk side systems. A few months ago one of the desk-side systems became questionable and after twenty years of building systems with parts from Fry's and other Bay area shops I moved to the Central Coast of California with a dearth of places to buy pieces parts I bought an attractively priced HP desk side system. I blew away Vista, installed FC 7 called to register my system and HP refused accept registration because it did not have a Windoze OS!!
I wanted to get a new lighter laptop so I went shopping and bought, not an HP, but a Sony.
two weeks ago I received a laptop back from HP repair. Two key caps had popped off and I had no success reinstalling them. I had failures with Windoze backup, but I had never had a problem with losing data on previous HP repairs, so I wasn't worried about my data. I did note the backup problems, and asked that they not mess with the disks.
The system is my Photography system and ran XP. I am waiting for GIMP to get close enough to Adobe Photoshop. The system returned with the system disk "reimaged" -- to fix a couple of key caps!! They blew away a whole bunch of expensive photography music and security software. I should be able to recover from original media or from the Internet. I did spend a week trying to recover from the failed backups and reinstalling XP on new drives before starting from scratch reinstalling the missing applications.
The new disks provide an idiotic a sidelight to this fiasco, I had bought a couple of larger Hitachi disks to replace the OEM Hitachi drives that came with the laptop I was going to convert the system to a dual boot F8/XP system, but the HP idiots said they would not repair the keyboard unless the OEM disks were left in the system.
Surprise, surprise -- I am also done with HP, and I will tell all comers that they are better off with about anybody else's systems.
Grimly yours,
dlg
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