Debian install trouble with HP Pavillion laptop (was Re: [ale] Distro question...)

[Barry Hawkins]

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Jerald Sheets wrote:
| LOL!
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| It won't run on an HP Pavillion zd7020US 17" laptop.
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| I could understand if it would load up and a bunch of drvers would fail,
| but this puppy segfaults right after the kernel load and before it
| starts mounting filesystems...both in sinle and multi-user modes.
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| I really wanted to run it, but it wouldn't run.
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| FC3 wound up being my landing pad.
|
| --Jerald
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What install method did you use and which Debian version did you try?  I
find your results quite surprising.  I don't know anything about the
hardware specs on your unit; is there anything special/unusual about it?

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Barry Hawkins
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