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Hi,
Recently, one of the systems in my office had problems and turned out the motherboard was dead. Since it was a older model system I decided to get Atom Processor and D945GCLF motherboard as a replacement (1 GB DDR2 RAM is also purchased new, other components like hard disk, cd drive, 400W generic PSU and ATX cabinet are old). Even though all other systems in my office are on Windows, I wanted to try to install Linux on this as I am starting to run out of purchased licenses.
First, I got a KUbuntu Live CD. The system loaded the live distro and I installed it on the full system. After installation I restarted but the system would not go past GRUB loading stage 1.5 and would keep restarting again and again. I was told on searching the net that this might be due to issues with acpi and that disabling would work, but there was no option to turn off acpi in the BIOS.
Then, I thought I will try one more distro and downloaded VectorLinux 6.0 Lite. Here also, the distro installed completely, but after installation, the system would not load Linux. It stopped at the boot screen with an error that linux failed to load. I tried entering "linux noacpi" based on KUbuntu experience, but that did not help either...
I need your help to either get one of the above two distros working or suggest a distro known to work well with the Atom processor and D945GCLF motherboard.
Thanks in advance,
Arun
Recently, one of the systems in my office had problems and turned out the motherboard was dead. Since it was a older model system I decided to get Atom Processor and D945GCLF motherboard as a replacement (1 GB DDR2 RAM is also purchased new, other components like hard disk, cd drive, 400W generic PSU and ATX cabinet are old). Even though all other systems in my office are on Windows, I wanted to try to install Linux on this as I am starting to run out of purchased licenses.
First, I got a KUbuntu Live CD. The system loaded the live distro and I installed it on the full system. After installation I restarted but the system would not go past GRUB loading stage 1.5 and would keep restarting again and again. I was told on searching the net that this might be due to issues with acpi and that disabling would work, but there was no option to turn off acpi in the BIOS.
Then, I thought I will try one more distro and downloaded VectorLinux 6.0 Lite. Here also, the distro installed completely, but after installation, the system would not load Linux. It stopped at the boot screen with an error that linux failed to load. I tried entering "linux noacpi" based on KUbuntu experience, but that did not help either...
I need your help to either get one of the above two distros working or suggest a distro known to work well with the Atom processor and D945GCLF motherboard.
Thanks in advance,
Arun
