Problems with the Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD on an HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop
It was a disappointing experience. A friend of mine was looking to replace Vista and willing to entertain the idea of moving to Linux. So I brought over my Ubuntu CD’s and tried to run them. Although slow, the Live CD is still a good way to show off what the desktop will look like and test driver compatibility. Unfortunately the Live CD would lock up with a scrambled screen on boot. My friend was not impressed.
I took down the model number and decided to do some research. I found a promising thread on ubuntuforums.com title HP Pavillion dv6000 livecd doesn’t work?. It was an old thread but had been recently posted to. I found 2 solutions offered which I will try if I get another change. Both of them are adding boot options to the CD by pressing F6 and then passing either of the following sets of parameters:
- noapic nolapic
- highres=off nohz=off
I would not be surprised to find either (or both) of those solutions to work. The problem, of course, is building trust in users who don’t consider themselves savvy and who will be troubled about installing an operating system which requires such arcane commands just to get working. I suppose this is a Linux kernel issue but it would be nice for their to be some mechanism, a driver database of sorts that could make these sorts of changes without user intervention.
If I get another chance to work on this laptop I’ll write an update on how it goes.
Don't blame Linux. Blame HP
Don't blame Linux. Blame HP and the new WINDOWS VISTA COMPATIBLE Laptops. I also have a dv6000, it's a good laptop. Linux IS NOT WINDOWS AND IT IS NOT DESIGNED FOR WINDOWS USERS. If you don't have that in your mind you're always being going to be disappointed.
Don't don't. Relax and listen a human but a machine
So stupid, if something goes wrong with some hardware while installs a product from Linux world - that is a mistake of software and mind architecture from those people who claims are leader on some Linux projects. That's all.
If HP did something you do not want just vote on your money - do NOT BUY their products and for some time their company and their mind architecture solutions will be disappeared. That's all.
If you bought HP go to a court for unfair consumer support and limiting your rights to use a tool for your purpose. That's all.
Just, if suddenly you have got a problem, stay calm and think, you are human, don't you?
For these stupid situations my advice for Linux software / user mind architector, just, give the most peolpe simple solution( for instance, one additional menu with F11 (named ANY BOOT/INSTALL PROBLEM - PUSH F11) and inside write whatever you want ... noahci... no shmahci, just, THIS Solution MUST work ANY situation (like as in windows software solution - if something wrong - ANYWAY user get THE Solution (truthfully , in more situations than Linux))
So, there is no LINUX or WINDOWS USERS there are poorly architectured software soltuions from company microsoft, community Linux some name, whatever.
That's all, guys!