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esauve

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 16

Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

I just purchased an HP Pavilion dm3 (the model based on the AMD Neo X2 L335 CPU) and I can't boot the latest 2009.08 installer, it locks up during the kernel loading process. I presume I would need to add some esoteric kernel parameters on the kernel line in grub (ie. noapic) but I have no idea which one. I've successfully installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it so I know this thing will run Linux. Thanks in advance.

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

Did you verify the checksum after downloading the image? Did you choose the same architecture as Ubuntu? I don't know that CPU; is it 32-bit or 64-bit? In case you chose the 64-bit image, it may worth to try the 32-bit image too, except there are special reasons against it.

esauve

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Registered: 2007-07-13

Posts: 16

Re: Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

I tried the same the USB pen drive on another (and older) notebook and booted fine, was able to start the installation process from the same USB pen drive.

avilella

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Registered: 2009-12-21

Posts: 1

Re: Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

I just purchased an HP Pavilion dm3 (the model based on the AMD Neo X2 L335 CPU) and I can't boot the latest 2009.08 installer, it locks up during the kernel loading process. I presume I would need to add some esoteric kernel parameters on the kernel line in grub (ie. noapic) but I have no idea which one. I've successfully installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it so I know this thing will run Linux. Thanks in advance.

Is this still happening with the latest version of the distro you are using in the USB?

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adrianbs

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From: Uruguay

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 31

Re: Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

I just purchased an HP Pavilion dm3 (the model based on the AMD Neo X2 L335 CPU) and I can't boot the latest 2009.08 installer, it locks up during the kernel loading process. I presume I would need to add some esoteric kernel parameters on the kernel line in grub (ie. noapic) but I have no idea which one. I've successfully installed Ubuntu 9.10 on it so I know this thing will run Linux. Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem. I first installed Ubuntu 10.10 on it to test linux. Now I am trying to install Arch.

I am using the 2010.05 installer. It hangs when it says: "Setting Consoles to UTF-8 mode".

Any ideas?

adrianbs

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From: Uruguay

Registered: 2009-08-13

Posts: 31

Re: Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

I just tried something that worked for me. I removed the locale kernel parameter before booting. It works!

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Cannot boot installer on new HP Pavilion DM3

please don't necrobump old threads.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing....

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