Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Problems after problems

I still haven't got Ubuntu 8.10 working which is very surprising for me, never had these problems before. When i boot and try to start the live CD i get Kernel Panic, tried booting into different boot options but with no success, i also read on Ubuntu's wiki page and it says that everything should works fine... I have also tried with different BIOS updates like F02,F03,F04,F05 with no result.
I was able to install Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux, but they really look like crap and i rather run Windows seven on it which works terrific. Can someone please confirm their Hp 2133 is working with Ubuntu 8.10? Im still working on it..

4 comments:

  1. Hi there... just found your site a few days ago.
    I have the HP2133 / KX870AT

    I have Ubuntu 8.10 running on on my laptop right now. The only issue was the video - if I recall correctly, I had to add the 'forcevesa' on boot - and then everything else worked just fine. In fact I was waiting to see how you got the new VIA Chrome 9 video driver to work, because thats the only things i couldn't get to work.

    I had 8.04 running on this (before).
    Fedora 10 and Suse 11.1 both failed to get past the initial login....because of the VIA video.

    Otherwise - the install went well - no issues at all with 8.10

    john-

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  2. Hey John and thanks for your comment. I'm gonna try re download it, but i had the same problems and other versions based on Ubuntu, like Gos space which is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1. I tried the forcevesa boot option with no success.
    I'll reply later, thanks again.

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  3. Hej Marcus.
    Ill continue in English.

    I failed both Opensuse and ubuntu with my 8 gig usb only one single partition it stalled randomly when loading kernel at install.

    got a tip use smaller partition, so i took a 1 gig kingston usbstick with fat 16 on it and it booted upp fine, it just got finally 5 minutes ago.

    It needed to be installed with 640x480 do so i just moved the window with alt+klick+ drag.

    Wireless worked right away.

    Now i'am working on the driver for grapics.

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  4. Thanks for your comment Andy, Great you finally got it installed.

    Kul med svenskar pa bloggen, dra ivag ett email till mig pa marcus.wiberg@live.com om installationen av grafik drivrutinen gick, jag har inte testat den annu.

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