Special boot parameters of Live CD not carried over to installation

[tuxo]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Kubuntu Karmic, 9.10
System information: CPU: Intel Core i5, Bios Version: 0711

On the computer specified above we were not able to start the Live CD correctly. It hanged during the booting process, leaving only a black screen with a blinking cursor.

Providing a special boot parameter via F6 at the Live CD prompt (acpi=off) allowed us to boot up the machine correctly. However, after a successful permanent installation onto the harddrive, the computer didn't boot up correctly (we ended up again at the cursors blinking on an otherwise black screen). In order to solve this problem, we had to manually provide the necessary boot parameter to Grub2 via the following procedure:

sudo fdisk -l (to list the devices)
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo chroot /mnt
nano /etc/default/grub (add acpi=off to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT entry)
update-grub
sudo umount /mnt/dev
sudo umount /mnt

Given that Ubuntu states that it is Linux for human beings, we would have assumed that the Live CD installer would automatically take care of this situation and install Ubuntu to the the harddrive the way the Live CD was booted. The user could be warned during the permanent installation process about the necessary change to the Grub2 configuration and presented a choice if the installation should install with or without the provided special boot parameters.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 23 10:42:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1795): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]