Install from boot menu produces a different result to installation from live CD

[Dan Watkins]

When installing Intrepid on a friend's Acer Aspire 5100 over the weekend, I ran into major problems using the install option from the boot menu. When the installation had completed (apparently successfully) and booted up, X wouldn't accept any input (though the console would). In an attempt to diagnose this problem, I removed the gdm package.

Unfortunately, the installation then wouldn't accept the CD as a source of the packages, so I had to add some online sources in order to reinstall it. At this point, I discovered that none of the network interfaces seemed to be configured in a usable manner (i.e. ifconfig wasn't able to do any setup). So, I went to reinstall.

Unsurprisingly, by this point, my friend was becoming rather impatient, so we booted into the LiveCD so he could actually use his computer as something more than an inefficient space heater. When he'd finished checking Facebook, we went through the install from the live CD environment. When we booted into the new installation it worked perfectly, and he's now the happy user of a GNU/Linux laptop (hurrah!).

To summarise:
  * Installed using boot menu option
  * X wouldn't accept input, network interfaces weren't configured
  * Reinstalled using live CD desktop shortcut.
  * ...
  * Profit.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I'm afraid that without any information on what went wrong or how to reproduce it there is nothing to be done at this point, so I'm closing this bug.