9.04 fails to boot on HP DV2-1030US laptop
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Bug Description
I have an HP DV2-1030US laptop (great little machine for a good price) with Ubuntu 8.10 running on it; 8.10 works almost completely, and I can boot the 8.10 distribution both from CD-ROM and USB stick (via unetbootin).
Unfortunately, Ubuntu 9.04 won't boot either from CD-ROM or USB. After booting from the Desktop Install CD and selecting "Default", it prints a couple of messages and goes into graphical mode with the Ubuntu logo and the progress indicator. It then sits there for a while (the disk access light blinks occasionally) and eventually returns to a BusyBox prompt.
Again, this is before any installation; it shouldn't need to access the harddisk at all, since I'm booting from USB. And the same laptop that fails to boot under 9.04 boots and installs fine under 8.10.
The behavior has occurred consistently in 9.04 alpha, 9.04 beta, 9.04 rc, and 9.04 release.
=== BOOT MESSAGES ===
Loading /ubnkern.
Loading /ubninit.
[ 0.548002] MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[ 2.340013] ata1: softreset failed (device not ready)
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/
Loading, please wait...
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1...)
...
(initramfs)
=== END OF BOOT MESSAGES ===
tags: | added: hp-dv2 |
I have exactly the same problem. I downloaded 9.04 Release and cannot boot from either a CD or USB. I've tried the 32bit iso, 64bit iso and also the minimum install iso (bunt onto a CD). I did seem to get more progress form the 64bit minimum install CD. It went through the the install process fine, but went to boot from the hdd after install I get the same error message above:
modprobe:FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/ 2.6.28- 11-generic/ modules. dep: No Such file or directory
I have verified the CD(s) by booting on a laptop (Dell Latitude D630) and they work fine. This has to be a hardware related issue. NB: WinXP works fine on my hardware, so I am sure nothing is faulty.
There seem to be many other people who have had this problem with the beta releases and USB, but very few with this problem on the release version and a hdd.
I'm running:
Gigabyte GA-MA770-S3P with 4gig of RAM (2 sticks) an AMD X2 5000+ processor a 750gb hdd as the master on SATA channel 1.
Anyone have any ideas on a fix/workaround?