sharper47
March 30th, 2012, 07:14 AM
I would dearly love to install Ubuntu on my older HP laptop. Have tried three or four different versions of 11.10 (regular, alternate, lubuntu, etc.) and the result is exactly the same for all. It starts the boot CD, displays one line,
ISOLINUX 4.04 20110518 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
and freezes. Windows recovery CD's work just fine, by the way. If I do the install in WinXP and Wubi, the install process seems to run ok, but when I reboot and select Ubuntu to start, I get this:
Try (hd0,0): FAT16: No WUBILDR
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No wubildr
Try (hd0,2): invalid or null
Try (hd0,3): invalid or null
Try (fd0): invalid or null
Error: Cannot find GRLDR in all devices, press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
What's going on, and how do I fix it?
Here's the system:
hp Pavilion ze5000 (production proto, actually did not sell under this model number, not sure the actual )
Intel P4M 2.2G, 1G Ram, Hitachi 80G HDD (HTS541680J9AT00), LCD 1400x1050, DVD/CD-RW QSI SBW-161, STD FDD
ALi PCI-AGP Controller, Display adapter ATI Mobility M6 (Radeon) 32MB PCI bus 1, dev 0, fcn 0, irq 10
IDE ATA/ATAPI ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller PCI bus 0, dev 16, fcn 0
Ali FIR controller, 1394, modem, acpi, parallel port, serial port, svideo out
Wireless Lan-Express IEEE802.11 PCI adapter PCI bus 0, dev 9, fcn 0, irq10
Ethernet Nat. Semi DP83815 10/100 MacPhyter 3v PCI adapter PCI bus 0, dev 18, fcn 0, irq 11
PCMCIA (2 slots) TI PCI-1520 Cardbus Controller PCI bus 0, dev 10, fcn 0,1, irq 11
USB 1.1 ALi PCI-USB OpenHost Controller PCI bus 0, dev 2, fcn 0, irq 10
Any help or pointers would be appreciated. The unit has lots of sentimental value. I was the lead hardware design engineer on this series of laptops. And I admit to knowing not too much about software in general and especially being a Linux newbie...
ISOLINUX 4.04 20110518 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2011 H. Peter Anvin et al
and freezes. Windows recovery CD's work just fine, by the way. If I do the install in WinXP and Wubi, the install process seems to run ok, but when I reboot and select Ubuntu to start, I get this:
Try (hd0,0): FAT16: No WUBILDR
Try (hd0,1): NTFS5: No wubildr
Try (hd0,2): invalid or null
Try (hd0,3): invalid or null
Try (fd0): invalid or null
Error: Cannot find GRLDR in all devices, press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
What's going on, and how do I fix it?
Here's the system:
hp Pavilion ze5000 (production proto, actually did not sell under this model number, not sure the actual )
Intel P4M 2.2G, 1G Ram, Hitachi 80G HDD (HTS541680J9AT00), LCD 1400x1050, DVD/CD-RW QSI SBW-161, STD FDD
ALi PCI-AGP Controller, Display adapter ATI Mobility M6 (Radeon) 32MB PCI bus 1, dev 0, fcn 0, irq 10
IDE ATA/ATAPI ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller PCI bus 0, dev 16, fcn 0
Ali FIR controller, 1394, modem, acpi, parallel port, serial port, svideo out
Wireless Lan-Express IEEE802.11 PCI adapter PCI bus 0, dev 9, fcn 0, irq10
Ethernet Nat. Semi DP83815 10/100 MacPhyter 3v PCI adapter PCI bus 0, dev 18, fcn 0, irq 11
PCMCIA (2 slots) TI PCI-1520 Cardbus Controller PCI bus 0, dev 10, fcn 0,1, irq 11
USB 1.1 ALi PCI-USB OpenHost Controller PCI bus 0, dev 2, fcn 0, irq 10
Any help or pointers would be appreciated. The unit has lots of sentimental value. I was the lead hardware design engineer on this series of laptops. And I admit to knowing not too much about software in general and especially being a Linux newbie...