Can't install fedora??

Jubei · #1 24th October 2009, 02:06 AM

I have an Asus M51Se (- AP115), and I can't install linux on it. It came with a sloppy vista, and I'm trying to get F10 running on it. Just takes me to black screen... Any ideas? Or.. Help?

zackf · #2 24th October 2009, 03:04 AM

How are you trying to install it?

Jubei · #3 24th October 2009, 08:57 AM

By sticking the CD in and booting it??

The funny thing is that right after it boots and loads the Fedora 10 loading screen it just goes to black. Doesn't even take me to the install menu. I tried booting the CD in every way possible. I did some research and found out that other people had similar problems (with other distros too) and most remain unresolved. It's like there's a curse over this model of lappies

#4 24th October 2009, 09:01 AM

Not to try and steer ya away from Fedora but I would try http://puppylinux.org and see if that works. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that Fedora has but is fast and works on some odd hardware.

Jubei · #5 24th October 2009, 09:05 AM

Tried. Doesn't quite work... Ubuntu is the only thing that gets some output, and that output is a BusyBox shell, after I install ubuntu from my other partition, which brings me to the fact that I am actually clueless as to how BusyBox can help...

Nokia · #6 24th October 2009, 09:12 AM

F10 will be EOL in about 2 months or less.
Try either F11 or wait for F12. With F11 if it does not install in GUI mode install it in text mode. After doing so, post back here.
Aslos, what video do you have that is so difficult to manage ?

#7 24th October 2009, 09:16 AM

Found some info on this at http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+m51se where one person says:
Solution to install any version of linux

Quote:

To run Linux on this laptop yuo must install tha alternate version, after that you must edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add in kernel line “mem=2900M”.

es. : /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=680574bb-08e1-4700-9017-ad262976566c ro quiet splash mem=2900M

there's a problem with ram. I hope someone will resolve this limitation.

and read somewhere else that is you have 4 gigs of ram to remove 2gigs and it will work.

so it looks like a Mem problem.

Jubei · #8 24th October 2009, 03:54 PM

Right. The odd thing is that the CD boots and all, but right after it loads the boot, it gets stuck (that's with every CD and every distro) right after the loading screen, where it checks and all, it just gets stuck...

#9 24th October 2009, 05:12 PM

I think Nokia has the right idea, try to do a text install and then edit the kernel line above to reduce the amount of RAM to 2900M or just physically run only 2 Gigs.

Have you tried any of these things?

Jubei · #10 25th October 2009, 08:49 PM

Well, sirs... I can't quite figure out what you mean by text install, and I can't find how it's done. Mind linking me to some man documentation? :s

Nokia · #11 25th October 2009, 08:52 PM

See in the upper right > Fedora Project Jump dropdown menu > Installation guide

Jubei · #12 26th October 2009, 05:52 PM

Wow. That was really a waste of time. Finally installed everything with Debian /still with no graphical interface/ (because fedora denied working till the very end) and they rang me from the company I purchased the lappy from, and request it back, because it was a lappy that was missing a graphics card. Sadly, I do not posses a weapon of any sort, so the question left is: "What should I use to murder the shopkeeper?"

Thank you kindly for the help offered, this thread can now be closed.

#13 26th October 2009, 06:06 PM

Wow, that's a new one, I would suggest beating them with An Illustrated Step by Step Guide on Building a Laptop with the printout of this thread in between the pages.

EDIT: This is a joke of course, I do not condone any violent acts of any kind.