8.04 Hardy Heron crashes pre-install
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hi,
I have a new Dell Inspiron 530 that came with Ubuntu installed. It has 4 Gig of physical memory and a 250 gig hard disk. It has some NVIDIA card and whatever they're using for CPUs and motherboards right now. I just got it a couple of weeks ago. For various reasons I have reinstalled version 7.10 several times and that is what I am currently running. I downloaded the desktop "release candidate" version of "Hardy Heron 8.04".
Here is the checksum for the file:
> md5sum ubuntu-
86dc6f4792fa5a6
I have repeated the process of downloading a new file and burning an iso 9660 (or whatever it is) image to a CD twice. Once to a Read-Write disk and once to a Write-once disk. In both cases I can boot off of the CD up to the choice of languages, (English) and then the basic install menu. No matter which choice I make, "Check CD" or "Run Ubuntu without touching my computer" or whatever they are it starts with the Ubuntu splash screen with the orange bar oscillating back and forth. After about 15 seconds it apparently crashes to (approximation):
BugBox V1.1.3
Debian 1:1.1.3
built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of commands
and a prompt that looks like:
(INITRAMFS)
After a minute or two I get error messages
[110.190986] ata1.00: revalidation failed errno=-5
And then quickly some information as it reboots that I couldn't write down.
Once I remove the CD and it reboots it comes up with 7.10 just fine like no damage has been done.
If there's any information that I can get for you let me know. I didn't find any files in /var/log/
-Ryan
| Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote | #1 |
Thanks for your bug report. This bug is a duplicate of bug 153702 so I mark it as such. A workaround to fix your issue is to go in the BIOS of your computer (F2 at boot), then go in "Integrated peripherals" and then change "SATA mode" from "IDE" to "RAID". Note that when changing IDE to RAID, if you also have Windows operating system on your computer, it may stop booting with RAID since Windows is not able to use "real SATA" without additional drivers.