Edgy RC and My Hardware. No Joy.
Well this has been a tough day. I’m on vacation and decided that it’d be fun to install Edgy to another partition on my machine. The Ubuntu team announced the release candidate yesterday and I REALLY want to see how the changes to startup impact boot times and to play with some AIGLX eye candy.
Sadly I can’t get it to install on my Intel D945GTP mATX board. I found that the installer would hang in different places or report corrupt files during install. I doubt that there are corrupt files, I always test the MD5 sums when I download an ISO (because whenever I skip that step I regret it). After the MD5 passed, I started the system with the CD and ran the CD test from the menu. No problems there either. I figured I’d do some updating, I grabbed the latest BIOS for the board and applied the image, I updated the firmware on the DVD ROM (LiteOn SHW-160P6S). That was a chore as LiteOn hasn’t realized that there are other operating systems besides windows (oh and LiteOn, you should ZIP your files, not RAR them!). So far nothing has worked, I still get random hangs during install with the only visible activity on the system being a rapidly flashing CDROM access light.
I tend to use the alternate installs as I have a single partition I use for booting and don’t install GRUB to the Master Boot Record. I’ve burned that CD twice and have inconsistent problems with both.
I hope this is a problem with the installer and not my hardware.
Oh and be careful when buying the latest and greatest hardware, I’m setting up a machine for a pal of mine, Core 2 Duo on an Intel DG965WH motherboard. On that system I can’t get Ubuntu (I tried both Dapper and Edgy) or Fedora to install. For some reason once the system boots from the CDROM, it can’t locate drivers for the CDROM to continue the install (huh??? I just stare and shake my head). It just asks for a driver floppy. No gots, none of my new machines even have a floppy drive (the same is true for this build)
Boo. This HAS NOT been a fun day. I may try the desktop install later and maybe play with some of the boot parameters on the alternate install. I may try and install Edgy on my notebook later on. I may actually just wait until the final release and HOPE that I can install it. Hope you’re having better luck.
October 28th, 2006 at 11:42 am
[...] As it turns out, the problems I had installing the latest Ubuntu were caused by my DVD/CD burner. I couldn’t get a “good burn” until I used a different machine with a different burner. Funny enough, I don’t have problems when burning DVDs, it only seems to be an issue when burning CDRs. Once I overcame that particular hurdle I was able to install Edgy an give it a shot. [...]