[Mageia-discuss] "NO ACPI" at install time may work for you

Thu May 24 21:53:53 CEST 2012

Just to let you know that, yesterday, I downloaded and burned the Mageia 
+v.2.0 onto a DVD. I then proceeded to install and it let me get through 
+all of the setup. Once it got to actually installing all of the packages 
+I kept getting messages that the setup could not install a particular 
+package, which I then answered back OK and continue and it kept coming 
+back with the same error over and over again. I discontinued the 
+installation and tried to install another couple of times with the same 
+results.
+
+I then exchanged my DVD player with a couple of other players to check 
+to see if my DVD player was defective and had the same results regardless.
+
+I then remembered that on some of my systems (we run 4 Mageia v.1 at 
+home), that Mandriva (which we previously had) would hiccup on some of 
+my systems. I am not sure why; however, I then remembered the same thing 
+occurred with Mageia v.1 on my main production computer. The fix for 
+this was to set "NO ACPI" at the start of the install process.
+
+If you are getting these kind of messages, and you have checked your 
+checksums (to make sure that your download was OK) then:
+
+* insert the disk and let it boot to the install page
+* you will notice on the bottom of that page, there are some options
+* press F6 and choose "NO ACPI"
+* go through the installation process and hopefully it will install with 
+no problems
+
+Cheers,
+
+Marc
+
+