Hardy Alternate installer blank log screen

[Kim Botherway]

Hi,

I have been using the ubuntu-8.04-beta-alternate-amd64.iso Sat Apr 5 11:09:53 2008 (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) to rebuild one of my boxes. Typically I would netboot but the current netboot files will not detect any SATA hard drive in my amd64 or i386 computers.

The installer is fine, but if you ALT-F2 through F4 to get to a busy-box or the log screen and then go back to the installer window after that all the busy-box screens are blank with a flashing cursor. For screen's 2 and 3 you can press enter and the shell prompt will appear, but the log screen is forever blank.

If you flip between installer and busy-box screens then the busy-box screen will blank again, requiring ctrl-d and then enter to get a new shell prompt.

Have tried this with both expert and non-expert modes, (F6 from the boot menu), and with verbose and quiet as part of the kernel string and on both computers.

PC1: AMD Phenom, nVidia 8800GTS, 8GB DDR2-1066 (amd64 version of Alternate ISO)
PC2: Intel Pentium Dual, ATI Radeon Express 1100, 2GB DDR2-667 (i386 version of Alternate ISO)

I am putting this under busy-box as I do not know where it should be.

Thank you

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #> and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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