I bought a Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E laptops on boxing day of this year. It's a medium size laptops with 15.4 inchies of screen coming with silver and non glossy body (I like the body so much). I think it's a cheap laptop with the original price of $799 and $200 off, so I only paid $599 plus tax. As usual, it's coming with Windows Vista preinstalled on it.
My plan with my new laptops is to dual boots with my favorite Linux distro, Ubuntu 7.10. I had an experience in setting up dual boots Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04, non a laptops though. I successfully dual boots my Dell Optiplex GX260 after I cloned the hard drive before it (to anticipate if the process of cloning was unsuccessfull). The process of cloning was much easier that what I thought before.
So I inserted the Ubuntu live CD on the drive on wait, ups, it won't boot. What's wrong. I expect to run the live CD smoothly, but not this time. I have tried several distros of Linux live CD without a problem, but that's not on laptops though. I was affraid if I won't be able to run (and later install) Ubuntu on my Vaio laptops. I read the problem of booting with this laptops is due to SATA hard drive installed in the laptops. Then I do googling and found a solution that are listed below:
1. Insert Ubuntu live CD
2. When asked to choose many options (Start or Install Ubuntu, ect) press F6 (Options)
3. Type:
break=top
then press Enter
4. Then at the prompt, type:
modprobe piix
exit
After doing those steps, the monitor blinks little bit then boot normally.
The display was not normal though, it looks like the 12 inchies display laptops.
The wireless was not detected.
The function keys such as increasing/decreasing volume/brightness were working normal.
Next plan is to really dual boots on the hard drive, so I'll post again after I have done that.
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