Installation at 5/7 Progress, Can't Dismiss Message Box with "??? ???"

[Jeffrey Walton]

I'm trying to install 14.04 Final Beta on an old Dell 4550.

The image is http://mirrors.usinternet.com/ubuntu/releases//trusty/ubuntu-14.04-beta2-desktop-i386.iso.

The old Dell has a Intel P4 2.0GHz, 2.0 GB memory.

The one thing that might complicate this is a Silicon Image PCI-X Sata II controller. There is no IDE harddrive; rather, there are a coupe of SATA II drives in a mirrored configuration.

At 5/7 progress dots, I'm presented with a message box that I can't dismiss. The title of the message box is "??? ????", and the text of the message box is "??? ???".

Image of the screen is attached.

[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

I just tried with 13.10. I got nearly the same result.

The result of 13.10 differed in that I *could* dismiss the same message box after it was presented. With 14.04, I could not dismiss the message box (even with multiple clicks).

On 13.10, once the message box was dismissed, the "Time Zone" step abruptly changed/rewound to "Installation Type". However, I could not get beyond installation type. It seems the SATA II controller (with chip SIL3124-2) confused the setup program at that step. Eventually, it just hung (too much knob turning, I suppose).

It appears I was able to install Ubuntu 12.04 on this machine. I say that because the "Installation Type" screen picked up the old Ubuntu 12.04 and the device mapper. So 12.04 worked, and something broke before or at 13.10.

Unfortunately, I cannot use 12.04 any longer because something is blown out. I only get a black screen after booting (and the black screen is not a command prompt). Its like the Xorg or whatever controls video is broken (hence the reason I'm trying to install a newer version of Ubuntu).

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[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

Added to kernel package per http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage.

I still don't see how to mark this against 14.04.

[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.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.