Comment 70 for bug 532984
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| runbei (gbeinhorn) wrote Re: Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 won't boot on HP Compaq Pentium 4; displays an irrelevant Glib warning on the console | #70 |
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Problem still exists on an HP 7100 as of 8/31/10. I'm using Mint 9 (Ubuntu 10.04). I unplugged all drives except the boot drive to see if it was a problem with the IDE or SATA chains. Nope, still see the GLib warning message.
If I press Enter at that message, I see a bunch of fail messages and then the system truly hangs.
It is strange, as the system was working normally until this morning - I could boot normally without any hangs. Also, I've been using Mint 9/10.04 on my ThinkPad T43 laptop for ages with no boot problems whatever.
Off topic, but the earlier comment by a developer that this affects only older PCs and is therefore irrelevant, is appalling. A major selling point of Linux is that it does work on older hardware - it "revives" old PCs. I hope that comment doesn't reflect the Ubuntu devs' pride in craft generally.