Installing Ubuntu in a HP pavilion a522n

[C Hamel]

On Wednesday 2006 February 01 10:18, Scott wrote:
> Rogelio Nodal wrote:
> > I don't know if it is the BIOS or the 9in1 reader but whatever it is, it
> > is not letting me boot Ubuntu. :).
> > Any way I will keep google running and see what happens.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
>
> I don't know what it is about HP Pavilions.  It's not like they're Dells
> which use proprietary parts.  To the best of my knowledge all of the HPs
> come with MSI mobos.
>
> We just got a HP Pavilion a1130n (AMD Athlon64 3500+ CPU, MSI mobo w/ATI
> Radeon Express chipset). last fall   Try as I might, Ubuntu completely
> balked at installing.  The live CD was worthless too.
>
> I wonder what it is that's causing this to happen?  Are HP owners doomed
> to a life Without Linux? ;-)
>
>
> --
> Scott
> www.angrykeyboarder.com
> © 2006 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved

I don't think so... I am using a ze5570us, myself... but I did find out that 
some distros will not run.  Period.  Others will.  On this box, Red Hat is a 
total bust.  It doesn't get past the ieee1394 driver on starting the 
installation CD.  Others, like SuSE, Gentoo, [K]Ubuntu install fairly easily.  
You may have to scout around for the perfect distro for your box like I did.

FWIW...
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        ...CH
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