I have installed Red Hat 8.0 on the 522n, but the program will not start. It hangs during boot up after listing the items on the IDEs, eg Hard Drive & CD devices. Since Red Hat wouldn't start, I installed Mandrake 9.0 and it wouldn't start either. It hangs at the line apm: Bios version 2.2 Flags 0x0b. Both Red Hat and Mandrake installed without a hitch, but will not run. Anyone have any ideas while this model will not run linux? Both will run on a Pavilion 6638 that we have in another office.
Your system hanging on "apm" indicates that there is a problem with the Advanced Power Management. Usually the problems arise due to a faulty implementation of APM in the BIOS. You have two options now: 1) If you can, disable APM support when installing Linux (as I don't know RedHat or Mandrake, I don't know if they give you an option for that). 1) Try to get a BIOS update. This might fix your issue.
Regards Mick
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I was able to start both Red Hat and Mandrake with the statement "linux apm=off" I had to add the linux for it to find the module or something. BTW I had tried "linux noapic" and it didn't work. THX
You have to had Linux because it is the system you are booting ! 2 solutions to ease your job : edit your loader (/boot/grub/grub.conf if it is grub, /etc/lilo.conf if it is lilo, and add this argument at the end of the part concerning this boot (more explanation if required !). /sbin/lilo to re-write to mbr if lilo (grub does it by itself).
do a chkconfig --level 2345 apm off It'll stop apm launching at start (both solutions are OK) ! Good luck J
