Recently, I installed Linux Trisquel 6 on a Dell Latitude D620 notebook (dual core cpu, 2GB DDR and 60GB hard drive), where previously Windows XP was installed. But Trisquel doesn't seem to support certain driver software though, like Dell. WiFi drivers are missing on Trisquel 6 and for those I installed other drivers and that worked out well. Then on that same disk, after Trisquel 7 formatted that disk, the upgrade was performed. Yet during final reboot the system hung with an error stating something about low on left space. But that was not possible since Trisquel 6 has already been installed on this same Seagate 60GB disk without any errors. After formatting whole disk again and reinstalling Trisquel 7 it ended with the same error, low on left space. An installation of Trisquel 7 with the same installation disk on another notebook went well, even with lower hardware specs like slower cpu (single cpu) and 1GB memory
So, I removed Trisquel 7 and installed Linux Mint instead (17.2 Rafaela, Cinamon 32-bit 4.9.3.2). That went well, yet after 2 or 3 reboots, the Dell Latitude D620 hung during reboot. After forced shutdown, the system remain unable to boot. When pressing the start button, only leds flashing like on normal boot and I can hear the hdd spin up and the cpu for a few seconds, then it goes down again.
In fact, it doesn´t even get to the POST (bios).
Only after disconnecting the cmos battery from the MoBo and reconnecting it again, the notebook performs a normal boot. However during a reboot after updates, the system hung again and remain unable to boot. So I had to disconnect the cmos battery again, just to make the notebook performing a normal boot again. I haven't yet re-installed XP again, just to find out if hanging during reboot is also persistant with Windows. But I wondered if Linux does cause these problems?