upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 resulted in unusable machine
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
after upgrading to 9.04 (from a working 8.10) the compaq armada M700 was unable to load the OS. It starts to load the OS (base drivers) and then halts... after a couple of minutes (between 3-6) it came back with a screen indicating segmentation errors. The offending hardware were both the USB as well as the PCMCIA hardware from what I could see on the screen.
the machine was not usable as it did not start the OS.
I could recover by using the old "recovery" kernel (after using the esc key at boot time) but only if I disconnected the wireless adapter from the PCMCIA bus. It was not possible to start any other option in the recovery as they all resulted in the screen described above.
a fresh install of 9.04 resulted in same result (see above) - yes I downloaded a fresh copy and started from scratch.
re-installed from scratch ubuntu 8.10 and there are no problems at all with the hardware ...
it must be related to the hardware in the compaq pressario M700 - PIII with 440 Mbyte ram
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
I have the same issue.
8.10 worked perfectly, 9.04 upgrade failed after the reboot so I burned a CD and stared form scratch, however it fails with the progress bar 1/8 of the way along at boot.
I have seen various PCI errors and an APCI error
Mike