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Subject: Boot/Installation problem on emachines M6805 Laptop
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I have tried to install 5.2.1 / 5.3 Beta 7, RC1 versions onto my Laptop
system from a CD of the amd64 distribution (boot only CD iso image from =
ftp
site).  The boot loader program starts up with the options to boot, but =
when
you select the default (1) it stops without any error messages =
displayed.
The laptop is an Emachines M6805 with mobile amd64 processor, I am not =
sure
which chipset it contains.

=20

Is there anything that I can do, or that I may be doing wrong, to get =
the
amd64 distribution to boot on my laptop.

=20

Rich Vanderbilt