> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 12:23 +0000, Da Rock wrote: > > I'm installing F8 on my second laptop (finally getting rid of bloody > > Windows - sorry for the language but this has truely given me the > > shits no end! And HP will only talk to you if you have it on the > > system! They're crazy people - it could be hardware thats the > > problem but they will insist Windows will fix it with their "magic" > > software... (you'll have to excuse my ranting but this is really a > > sore point!)) and the process is really slow to even get to the > > install - first it stops at running /sbin/loader, then it stops > > again before anaconda installer. > > > > I had this prob last time, but I thought it might be the disk. This > > is a completely fresh disk- I only just burnt it. I've run media > > check and it comes up ok too. It seems to be locked loading modules, > > and where it slows is on the loop module, and takes hours at the > > pcmcia module. > > > Any ideas? > > I wish you luck... I ended up scrapping the HP and buying another > (non-hp) computer. Seems like the Compaq folks have infected HP's > design philosophy, which is weird because Compaq failed and HP bought > them for a song due to the way they treated customers with their > software and proprietary Windows setups. I just will NEVER buy or > recommend an HP ever again. Fool me once.... > > Regards, > Les H I had three HP laptops and I have had a couple of good experiences with HP repair dealing mostly with the flaky power connections on a Z 5000 series laptop. I also have a network of desk side systems. A few months ago one of the desk-side systems became questionable and after twenty years of building systems with parts from Fry's and other Bay area shops I moved to the Central Coast of California with a dearth of places to buy pieces parts I bought an attractively priced HP desk side system. I blew away Vista, installed FC 7 called to register my system and HP refused accept registration because it did not have a Windoze OS!! I wanted to get a new lighter laptop so I went shopping and bought, not an HP, but a Sony. two weeks ago I received a laptop back from HP repair. Two key caps had popped off and I had no success reinstalling them. I had failures with Windoze backup, but I had never had a problem with losing data on previous HP repairs, so I wasn't worried about my data. I did note the backup problems, and asked that they not mess with the disks. The system is my Photography system and ran XP. I am waiting for GIMP to get close enough to Adobe Photoshop. The system returned with the system disk "reimaged" -- to fix a couple of key caps!! They blew away a whole bunch of expensive photography music and security software. I should be able to recover from original media or from the Internet. I did spend a week trying to recover from the failed backups and reinstalling XP on new drives before starting from scratch reinstalling the missing applications. The new disks provide an idiotic a sidelight to this fiasco, I had bought a couple of larger Hitachi disks to replace the OEM Hitachi drives that came with the laptop I was going to convert the system to a dual boot F8/XP system, but the HP idiots said they would not repair the keyboard unless the OEM disks were left in the system. Surprise, surprise -- I am also done with HP, and I will tell all comers that they are better off with about anybody else's systems. Grimly yours, dlg > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
