[ale] error during installation "checking hlt instructions"

[Cornelis van Dijk]

I had similar problems when I upgraded my PC last week: a hang during
the installation.
I solved it by successively removing pci cards, until the problem went
away. In my case it was a scsi card that was causing the problem.
Checking the BIOS is not a bad idea either. One can get free BIOS
upgrades usually.
Hopes this helps.

On 2/15/11, Sergio Chaves <sergio.chaves at gmail.com> wrote:
> Carlos,
>
> Does the problem happen DURING the install or AFTER?
> I reload old PCs to give away with Linux and the majority of the issues lies
> on two things:
> A - An old, "bad" BIOS that the newer kernels just do not like it.
> B - For some strange reason the old cd-rom cannot read the image cd properly
>
> For A, try using the option "linux acpi=off" (no quotes) when starting the
> install process.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions
>
> For B, I either put a newer CD/DVD-rom for the install only or do a net-
> install by using these instructions
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
>
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> Sergio Chaves
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 01:32:50 am C Vega wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have an old PC running 900Mhz Tbird CPU and 768Mb RAM. I also upgraded
>> the HDD to a 60Gb. I've tried to install Gentoo, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Linux
>> Mint and all and everyone of them stop at the line "checking hlt
>> instructions" during the installtion. I've looked over the web and there
>> are quite a few cases with the same problem, nonetheless the solution is
>> not clear to me, still. I'm interested in loading CentOS to build a server
>> since I used to run Ubuntu 8.04 on that box without any problems. Can
>> anyone assist me with this issue?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> Carlos Vega
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