Re: debian-installer - HP ProBook 6560b
On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 07:57:41PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: On 2011-06-10, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: what can i do to install debian on this laptop? Wait a while. Anything with Sandy Bridge built in graphics is a nightmare under linux at this time. Debian unstable MIGHT be able to get it going, but testing almost certainly can't yet. No change at all with stable. This will be true with probably all linux distributions at this time. Oh wheezy works perfect. At least with 2.6.39 from sid (but xserver-xorg-video-intel from wheezy). OK, so the 2.6.39 helps? Funny given the upstream 2.6.39 plain supposedly is a complete disaster for Sandy Bridge. Of course the problem was known so a patch may simply have already been included. I will suggest to my coworker to update his kernel then to see if that gets rid of the last few occational glitches. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110613144101.gy21...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Re: debian-installer - HP ProBook 6560b
On 2011-06-10, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: what can i do to install debian on this laptop? Wait a while. Anything with Sandy Bridge built in graphics is a nightmare under linux at this time. Debian unstable MIGHT be able to get it going, but testing almost certainly can't yet. No change at all with stable. This will be true with probably all linux distributions at this time. Oh wheezy works perfect. At least with 2.6.39 from sid (but xserver-xorg-video-intel from wheezy). Kind regards Philipp Kenr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrniv7i5l.2i8.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
debian-installer - HP ProBook 6560b
hello, i just tried to install debian on a HP ProBook 6560b with preinstalled windows7. these attempt were kind of frustrating and not successfull. 1. shinked the windows partition to get space for linux. 2. tried to install squeeze - no network device was found 2. tried to install testing, networkdevice was found but the installer was unable to intall grub or lilo 3. deleted windows and reinstalled 4. installed testing on /dev/sda5 - no complains about networkinterface or installing grub, but when i tried to reboot, no os was found 5. started in debian rescuemode and unset the boot-flag from /dev/sda5 and set the boot-flag on /dev/sda2 (the windows partition) 6. rebooted an was presented the grub prompt, selected debian. the system started to boot, but atfter displaying some line the display started flickering and nothing debian did not startup. 7. rebooted and selected windows at the grub prompt. windows started up without any complains what can i do to install debian on this laptop? tia, g.spellauge Gustav Spellauge Softing Services GmbH Richard-Reitzner-Allee 6 D-85540 Haar Tel +49 (89) 456 56-342 Fax +49 (89) 456 56-399 E-Mail: s...@softing.com Internet: http://www.softing.com Softing Services GmbH; Sitz: Haar bei Muenchen, Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 184927 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Maximilian zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4df248b9.1060...@softing.com
Re: debian-installer - HP ProBook 6560b
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 06:39:21PM +0200, g.spellauge wrote: i just tried to install debian on a HP ProBook 6560b with preinstalled windows7. these attempt were kind of frustrating and not successfull. 1. shinked the windows partition to get space for linux. 2. tried to install squeeze - no network device was found Not surprising. 2. tried to install testing, networkdevice was found but the installer was unable to intall grub or lilo Odd. 3. deleted windows and reinstalled Probably unnecesary. Windows can shrink itself quite well. 4. installed testing on /dev/sda5 - no complains about networkinterface or installing grub, but when i tried to reboot, no os was found See next answer. 5. started in debian rescuemode and unset the boot-flag from /dev/sda5 and set the boot-flag on /dev/sda2 (the windows partition) Many bioses incorrectly declare a disk not bootable if none of the primary partitions is set bootable (even though the bootable flag is irrelevant when you aren't running dos or windows since only the MBR cares what it is set to, and grub doesn't care at all and is in the MBR). It's a BIOS bug, but not one that is likely to ever get fixed. 6. rebooted an was presented the grub prompt, selected debian. the system started to boot, but atfter displaying some line the display started flickering and nothing debian did not startup. Sounds like the usual lack of working drivers for intel's new graphics core found in sandy bridge chips. 7. rebooted and selected windows at the grub prompt. windows started up without any complains what can i do to install debian on this laptop? Wait a while. Anything with Sandy Bridge built in graphics is a nightmare under linux at this time. Debian unstable MIGHT be able to get it going, but testing almost certainly can't yet. No change at all with stable. This will be true with probably all linux distributions at this time. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110610183413.gv21...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
