Installing ubuntu 9.10 -- some problems

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> The download of the ISO went OK, the binary was burned to DVD, and it checked
>>> out. I booted into it and noticed:
>>>
>>> 1. graphical interface doesn't work (kernel panics and it can't find my main
>>> hard drive)
>>
>> I am seeing similar problems with the LiveCD, on my box, however I am
>> able to bootup and make it to the 1st screen that asks to select a
>> language. After this point my screen gets really messed up and I see
>> vertical green bars. I also was getting a lot of SR0 errors not sure
>> why?
>>
>> I was able to use the same CD to install on my laptop, which is an
>> older pc and its now running 9.10 without and issues.
>>
>> Some improvement were made with the install cd, because when it first
>> came, i could not even install 9.10 on my laptop. I did another
>> download and burned a 2nd cd, will trying to reinstall on my box
>> tonight.
>>
>> I don't think the install CD is up to par and I would report any
>> issues. I posted comment about my problem on the forum but I think I
>> will need to log a bug tonight after another go at it with the new CD.
>>
>>> 2. text mode works well, except for when the time comes to select my packages.
>>> it seems to dump core (gives a symbolic stack dump on screen for a split
>>> second), then put me into a screen where it says that the "selecting packages"
>>> step failed. A look at the console (tty4) says that "pkgsel failed (code 127)".
>>> After this, I checked the DVD, no problems.
>>>
>>> Another bit of strangeness is that in text mode, the system was going to
>>> install to my USB/Firewire drive by default (which is a single NTFS partition),
>>> instead of the Linux partitions of my main SATA drive, inside my PC, which one
>>> would think would have been the default. The firewire drive doesn't show up in
>>> the BIOS, whereas the internal drive does.
>>>
>>> Because package selection died on me, I had to only set up the users and
>>> passwords and GRUB on partitions containing only the base system (no X, nothing
>>> else), so that I could at least boot into Windows to write this email.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any clues about this?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
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>> Kind Regards,
>> Rajinder Yadav
>>
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>
> sr0 would be the CD-ROM device on modern 'buntus. I'm not sure if it's
> specific to SATA CD-ROM's or IDE, but I think it's both.
>
> If you're seeing sr0 errors, perhaps it's having problems reading your
> disc or has issues with your SATA bus. I know on one of my machines a
> bunch of kernels were a bit "odd" with the SATA drivers and reset once
> or twice before they were patched up. One in particular had the SATA
> DVD-RW timeout and die constantly (but IDE worked fine, and later SATA
> drives were OK too).

yes it was my cdrom, the 2nd CD is created didn't have the sr0 read
errors, but kubuntu 9.10 seem to have a video bug, it gets all message
up and I can't continue to the the install.

i pinged one of the ubuntu peeps about where i can log my bug last night.

Rajinder


> There's a pci=nosomething (I've forgotten what the "something" is, but
> I can check when I get home) which may remedy that. I can check back
> later if it's helpful to anyone.
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