Installing ubuntu 9.10 -- some problems

[Tyler Aviss]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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>>> 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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Just a note for though with sometimes flakey (like mine) SATA
controller drivers, you can add these to the boot stanza in grub/lilo
which might help
pci=nomsi
or
pci=nommconf
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