Installing Ubuntu in a HP pavilion a522n

[Rainer Gutkas]

C Hamel schrieb:

>On Wednesday 2006 February 01 10:18, Scott wrote:
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>>Rogelio Nodal wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>I wonder what it is that's causing this to happen?  Are HP owners doomed
>>to a life Without Linux? ;-)
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>>--
>>Scott
>>www.angrykeyboarder.com
>>© 2006 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved
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>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.
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>FWIW...
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I got a HP pavillion K121.at and ubuntu ran perfect from the beginning. 
No troubles installing it, only problem with hoary was that I haven't 
had sound with xawtv after the install. So I found out this wasn't a 
machine specivivic problem, it was just turned off in hoary by default 
for good reasons ;-)

I didn't wanted to run an update to Breezy, because this also lead to 
troubles on my Powerbook Pismo, so I did a fresh install, not a big 
deal, havn't made much customization on that maschine till that day and 
have a sperate /home partition. Also worked perfect.

So I gotta say I did CDROM installs and updates via internet.

But it can be true that some maschines from HP don't work with different 
distributions, but it can also be that it doesn't like install DVD, 
because before I tried Ubuntu I wanted to use Fedora Core and the 
install DVD alsways got stuck at some point in the beginning.

Hope this helps,

Rainer
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