Ubuntu 9.10 beta installer hangs on Thinkpad T41

[Andrew Simpson]

Installing from USB stick with standard i386 installer. Live CD option didn't work either.

Installer hangs while detecting system with no useful error messages. Screenshots attached showing the screens under 'cntrl-alt-f8' and 'cntrl-alt-f1'.

After logging this information, I was able to do 'cntrl-alt-del' and the installer was able to carry out a shutdown and halt.

Note that one of the screenshots shows /dev/fd0 errors (The T41 has no floppy drive). I believe this to be unrelated, and fixed post-beta.

[Andrew Simpson (andrew-simpson)]

Sorry folks, this turns out to be some kind of USB stick and/or BIOS problem.

I had copied the ISO image to the USB stick with 'USB Startup Disk Creator' in Jaunty. It worked normally on an Acer Aspire One, but not with the Thinkpad T41 (as outlined above).

Today, I copied the files again with my old reliable Fedora (?) script 'isotostick.sh' (Had to patch udevinfo --> udevadm to get it working).

Now working 100 % on the Thinkpad T41 with no errors. Something related to 'USB Startup Disk Creator' is upsetting the T41.

[komputes (komputes)]

It seems common enough for keys that were not be clean. I suggest that if you have this issue, please try removing all partitions using gparted before running usb-creator. Then once the disk is created, go back into gparted and enable LBA flag on the partition. If you are able to consistently reproduce the issue, please re-open this bug and share the steps to reproduce. Thank you.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!