Problem installing UBUNTU

kukalkk

HI everyone,

i am new to linux and i would love to use ubuntu as my OS but the problem that i am facing is that as soon as i try to boot it from the live cd it gives a error

kernel panic not syncing: IO-APIC + time doesn't work, .............................try booting with 'noapic' option

pls pls help me on this one

or suggest some good linux os which i can install on my system................my system confiq

P4, 2.93 GHZ, 80 GB HDD, 1 GB RAM

saqman2060

You may have a bad LiveCD. APIC controls power functions and others relating to turning off and on you system. Reburn the image. Download from this site, www,ubuntu.com. Search for the distro your choice, LTS preferred. Try the installation again. Or, you could download linux mint 11.

RSims

Try ubuntu 11.04 fresh install:woohoo:

marc

On the boot screen, press "e" to edit the boot line and add "noapic" at the end. Try then...

Or try another Linux distro like Opensuse or Fedora

chekkizhar

can you please explain the problem/solution about " noapic" Marc?

marc

chekkizhar wrote:

can you please explain the problem/solution about " noapic" Marc?

Well, I really don't know much about the matter :S

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programmable_Interrupt_Controller

Noapic just disables the apic... (as it sometimes brings up problems)

chekkizhar

marc wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Programmable_Interrupt_Controller

Noapic just disables the apic... (as it sometimes brings up problems)

thanks. But, I also did not get fully. I understood that, I should peek into Admin and h/w engineer stuff often.

woboyle

If you need to set the boot option "noapic" to run, then you either have incompatible hardware, or you need to change a BIOS option to adjust the system to support Linux properly with ACPI enabled.

RSims

Ubuntu 11.10 comes out tomorrow (Thursday) which is in one hour for me here in central states time. Might as well try it out like everyone else