Factory installed

  I noticed my new laptop bios (Compaq CQ50) had 2 gig of ram and 160 gig
hd. I upgraded the ram to 4 gig fine. It came with Vista home premium. I
upgraded the HD to 250 gig and tried to load OpenSuSE 11.0 as I also
tried Ubuntu 8.10 and tried to run Gparted. No linux programs will load
fully. I can't install any Linux. I noticed the bios states a factory
loaded OS =  Vista and I can't change it. Is this laptop locked out of
any other installation?
Open stops installing after the Athros driver for wireless is installed.
I don't know what loads next, it just hangs there.
If this laptop is locked to one OS I want to sue the manufacturer. I
should be able to load anything I want on MY laptop. This was not stated
on the box.
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Claude Hopper          :)

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 Hopper says...


It isn't locked to one OS. The problem is though that Linux is quite
frankly shit in regards to installation on laptops and ACPI is
seriously broken. Try a custom boot,
adding -noacpi to the grub line.


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Conor

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  Conor wrote:

No problem on previous laptops. That's a crock.

 Hopper says...

In your experience. I've had to do it with various distros on this
laptop and even different revisions of Ubuntu.

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Conor

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 wrote:


That's simply FUD. What isn't FUD is that still quite a few BIOSes are
buggy when it comes to correct ACPI entries.

Philipp