Comment 3 for bug 290129

The updates failed with an error message about not enough room on device, after downloading all 143 of them and installing over 100 of them. I know I have enough hard drive space. Perhaps it means the RAM got full. So, I decided to try a full install. I booted up with the live CD and partitioned my drive to make a little room for an install, to try things out. Then, I made the mistake of messing with trying to get the nvidia driver working with Restricted Drivers Manager, while still in live mode. It locked up the Synaptic package manager, so I rebooted the laptop.

The Ubuntu disc would not boot! It failed three or four times with the error messages about xserver and no device found. I don't understand why having an empty ext3 partition and a swap partition on the hard drive would make the live CD not boot at all, when it did (reluctantly) boot before. So, this morning I downloaded the i386 version of Ubuntu 8.10 final and burned it to CD. I started it up, and it still has the issue of having to press the power button (once) to continue booting. After it was running, I double-clicked the install icon. It installed without any problems. When I rebooted after install, it still required that I press the power button to complete the boot process. So, the AMD64 and i386 versions both have this issue, whether in live mode, or installed to hard drive.