No luck with install. It goes to grub&gt; command line and hangs. Boot command returns "Kernel must be loaded before booting". Anyone encounter this?
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Facts First: The new installation is driven by a program, a program that needs an operating system to execute. So the installation DVD must have the vmlinuz on it (the compressed Linux kernel) and must have the grub (kernel loader). Upon startup, BIOS decides which device has boot program (grub), typically BIOS has a booting sequence (user changable) DVD ; hard disk or perhaps "pen drive". Which ever device is present, must have a boot program, if not the device is skipped. If the device has boot program (grub) it must also have vmlinuz for grub to load it. It seems that your device has grub, but not the compressed kernel "vmlinuz"
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The model I bought required adding a hard drive and ram. Then install an os. Not exactly plug and play.
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Hi Elizabeth,Make sure that you have inserted card into a PCI-Express V2.0 x2 Interface! or x4, x8, x16 slots.You can't boot directly to this card unless you reinstall the OS. If that is not the case adjust boot priority appropriately, and Check for motherboard BIOS update.Try testing card on another slot or another computer.
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I'm also looking at this laptop myself. I've been wondering if it will run fine with Linux, and from the input here things are looking good! I'm looking to run Debian, probably the testing branch as it has a little more up-to-date kernel and software, but I'm also considering Arch. That distro is always on the bleeding edge so the most recent software should (hopefully) pick up every piece of hardware on this machine.
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nope tried it and it would not show up in the device manager. So the software could not be installed since the motherboard could not see it. I tried two different ones and both would not show up as a device.
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Not sure if this has been answered or not, but I seem to remember mine booting up immediately, with an option to install android. I'd try taking the card out and reinserting.
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That's exactly what I had. Nopes. It should work flawlessly. May be your download was corrupt. Did you proceed as was mentioned in the link?
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Thanks for the answers. One more question, did any of you did a new install? based on the answers it seems that most or all of you just replace an old/broken board with this one. I am actually looking to do a new installation.
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Yes, I've installed this chip but had to do a bios update before it would boot.
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Yes, pressing F12 and choosing USB BOOT. I recommend OS 8.1 64Bits if you have more than 2GB (DDR 3 memories).
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yes, you can if you choose. you'd just have to set the boot order correctly in the BIOS
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Mine did not, but Linux installed with out any issues. I purchased one install disk and the rest of the OS downloaded easily. I am a happy camper
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It works on my Debian jessie with kernel 3.16. I suspect Ubuntu has a very similar set up.
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I find it a little tricky to get into the bios to change the boot order. I may take me 3 or 4 tries. When you get the Zotac logo on booting press and hold the F11 key. I am using a KVM switch which may be why I have some issues. I don't have screen shots to share or even remember much of how I did it.
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I have been running Ubuntu 11.04 on it for about a month and so far everything is great, no compatibility issues (though I admit I haven't put it through a full on stress test). I will say that I had to update the kernel from 2.6.38 (the default on installation) to 2.6.39 to resolve a freezing issue, but since then I have not had any problems. I have not tried installing any other Linux distributions.
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This card is supposedly supported kernel 4.2 and later. Anything before that and you will be compiling kernel modules until you are blue in the face. Even with 4.2 and later, it doesn't work well.
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No. Well, not directly.I had to change some kernel settings and recompile. Even then, it never really worked for me. One of the problems is that this device appears as an unknown USB device, and I had to trick the modules to work.