or..you could try installing the bigmem kernel to support up to 4 GiB RAM on 32-bit Ubuntu.
2009/11/3 Roy <[email protected]> > Try burning it again using a slower speed. You may have a bad burn. > > Roy > > 2009/11/2 hard wyrd <[email protected]> > > Since Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is relatively new, and you might be the >> first person to test it on a Samsung R510, it would be prudent to post your >> problem on the Ubuntu Forums as well. >> >> I also got Karmic 64-bit downloaded and ready to install but I need to >> prepare some stuff before dishing out my Jaunty which really worked like a >> charm out of the disc (since it didnt come out of the box :-) >> >> Sorry can't help you there since I dont have a 'sung R510 with me though. >> >> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Grigory Javadyan <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello everybody! >>> >>> I have a Samsung R510 laptop (with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor) >>> which currently runs a 32-bit version of Linux Mint 7. Yesterday I >>> decided to give a try to the 64-bit edition of Ubuntu 9.10 since >>> everybody says its awesome. So I downloaded the iso image, burned it >>> to a disc and tried to boot from it. >>> When I selected the "try ubuntu without installing it" option, the >>> screen went blank for a few seconds and then the laptop rebooted. >>> Then I tried to boot a 64-bit verison of openSUSE 11.0 from a CD - >>> with the same result! The laptop just restarted when an attempt was >>> made to load the kernel. >>> I understood that it had to be some kind of distro-independent >>> hardware-related issue. >>> Well, to make the long story short, after some googling, I found two >>> workarounds for this: >>> >>> 1. Use the acpi=off option during boot. The system started normally, >>> but, of course, none of >>> the acpi-related stuff worked - couldn't even monitor the battery >>> status, which was >>> totally unacceptable for a laptop. >>> >>> 2. Use the mem=4096m during boot. Everything works fine, but the system >>> sees >>> only 3 GB of RAM, while I have 4 GB of RAM. >>> >>> Now, I want to a 64-bit Linux and have both 4 GB of RAM and working >>> ACPI, if possible. So I'd appreciate any advice on that. Thanks for >>> the help ahead of time :-) >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Penguin, penguin, and more penguin. >> >> Believe that within the brain is a brain, and within it another brain, and >> so on and so forth. >> >> >> > > > > -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
