Compaq cq50 problems (solved)

Hi All,
I picked up my new laptop today a compaq cq50.
So far i've not been able to get a single linux disk to work on this machine 32bit or 64
i keep getting machine check exception errors that google reveals is something todo with slightly older kernels.
i have an old install disk that i can get to boot upto the udev section but once it tries to load the ath_pci modules bums out.
so far i have tried the command line brokenmodules=ath5k,ath_pci,ath_hal and still had no luck stopping udev from loading this module.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks
Matthew
Last edited by genisis300 (2008-10-28 18:21:21)

Just incase anyone else runs into this problem. I made a new install disk using the Larch scripts (very easy to use btw)
with a newer kernel and the archinstall scripts from core.
Worked a charm. Laptop is now running arch and i no longer have nightmares about windows Vista

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