Help?? Disk drive replaced, now it stops 1/2 way thru bootup???

[rcollins68]

I have a HP Pavilion N5000/OmniBook XE3. Someone replaced the disk drive with HDD2157.

It boots up part way thru Fedora Core (2.6.9-1681_FC3smp)
Stops after it uncompresses Linux... at 'booting kernel it says--'

"APCI: BIOS age (1992) fails cutoff (2001), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00:07.1"
After this it checks "Red Hat, volumes, INIT:, ect... "
Stops at - "Configuring kernel parameters:_ "

Now I'm new at this and trying to do it on my own/with your help please.?? I've been all over the net and haven't got an answer yet maybe someone can help me here??
Thanks

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The answer may be that the "somebody" who replaced the disk drive used one that does not work right with the BIOS of the notebook computer. You may need a different disk or distribution of Linux.

HP Pavillion notebooks are noteworthy for the lack of Linux support. Driver support for video and apparently now disk is close to non-existent.

This laptop is not Linux friendly to say the least.

You may want to try a newer version of Fedora Core. You are using Version 3 and the hardware support in Version 8 or 9 might be better.

SEP