Laptop Linux

falkone · 2003-09-09T06:40:14

I just got ahold of a copy of mandrake 8.2 and tried installing it on my desktop and laptop. Desktop installation went wonderfully.. but on my laptop the computer crashes on boot. PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x......., BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdbio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x......., BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdbio This is the last thing that it displays.. then it stops responding (the cursor still blinks though). On the installation linux boot, i''ve noticed that what seems to come after this is some information about the cd-rom Is there anything simple i might be missing? perhaps bios settings.. or incorrect kernel arguments.. or perhaps a crappy distribution?