watwann
July 26th, 2008, 08:40 PM
Hey guys
I have just bought a new LG R405 laptop and want to install Ubuntu. I have been looking at it for a while and have run it from live cd on two other laptops (Averatec and HP)but I can't even run the live cd on the LG.
When I boot to the cd, it will load to the menu screen, ask for language, and then start loading but give a "No-apic" error.
I have tried F4 to safe mode and edit start option for "noapic and nolapic" but the boot has a failure to set system clock and stops at command line.
Windows Vista Premium is already installed and I have shrunk my drives to leave about 95 gig unallocated.
The LG has a built-in protection system that appears to have partitioned the hard drive with a 1gig unaccessable partition as well as the primary and secondary partitions.
I grew up on DOS but have had all those brain cells burnt off by WinXP so am just learning computers again.
LG R405
Intel Core2 Duo (2Ghz)
4 gig ram
320 gig SATA HD
ATI Xpress 1250
I am trying to install the 32 bit version which I understand is more stable.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance
I have just bought a new LG R405 laptop and want to install Ubuntu. I have been looking at it for a while and have run it from live cd on two other laptops (Averatec and HP)but I can't even run the live cd on the LG.
When I boot to the cd, it will load to the menu screen, ask for language, and then start loading but give a "No-apic" error.
I have tried F4 to safe mode and edit start option for "noapic and nolapic" but the boot has a failure to set system clock and stops at command line.
Windows Vista Premium is already installed and I have shrunk my drives to leave about 95 gig unallocated.
The LG has a built-in protection system that appears to have partitioned the hard drive with a 1gig unaccessable partition as well as the primary and secondary partitions.
I grew up on DOS but have had all those brain cells burnt off by WinXP so am just learning computers again.
LG R405
Intel Core2 Duo (2Ghz)
4 gig ram
320 gig SATA HD
ATI Xpress 1250
I am trying to install the 32 bit version which I understand is more stable.
Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance