[SOLVED] this was a partitioning prob that grub didn't like -lesson...
don't remove partitions and leave a numerical gap bewtween those
remaining.
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Status: New = Invalid
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[SOLVED?] installed Linux Mint 8 which took GRUB to 1.97 (beta4)... don't like
Lnx Mint but so what. Then was able to install Karmic (from same CD as b4)
without any prob. BUT... Grub was still the Mint version and now not showing
either Jaunty or Karmic! Restarted Mint in Safe mode and used
btw...anyone checked te forums recently... increasing instances of 9.10
install failing ... yet this bug is still counted as 'new' and
'undecided'. Was 9.10 released too early I wonder?
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ubuntu 9.10 won't install on dell dimension e520
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478547
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Good to hear you got your live session going, well done.
In my case, I have always been able to get the live session running
without any problem (apart from the USB wireless dongle being unable to
connect to the wireless network in 9.10 (no problem with it in 9.04) and
I was able to upgrade from
Well this is officially your bug. I was appeared to have a similar bug
thats all.
I solved mine!
I used xforcevesa as a boot option on the 'try ubuntu without changing
anything' option worked and loaded into a live session.
source:
Looks like the dark brown ubuntu spotlight is called xplash.
So this bug could be retitled 'karmic live cd freezes during xsplash'.
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I think the following might be worth trying, if only to see if more info
is given on going round or breaking out of the loop described below;
and for the same reason (the loooping you can get it to do), I'm not
sure about renaming bug to 'freezes during xsplash' because:
I have found that if I
The freeze happens on the karmic 9.10 amd64 and i386 install CDs... both
when you go to install... and when you go into 'try ubuntu without
changes'.
Boot sequence:
1] Bios
2] Grub
3] glowing ubuntu logo
4] hourglass for a splitsecond
5] dark brown ubuntu spotlight
FREEZE.
If you remove splash
I have a dell T3400 workstation, the install freezes / hangs in the
middle of the 9.10 spotlight splash. 9.04 works fine. 9.10 installed
fine on other machines for me.
I am not sure how I can get some decent debugging information to post.
I have 1 SATA HDD and 1 SATA DVD drive, it freezes when
Sounds like the same problem and yes - debug gathering seems to be
an impossibility in this situation. Ideas re helping the bug mentors
welcome
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ubuntu 9.10 won't install on dell dimension e520
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The CPU of the dellT3400 workstation is an Intel Core 2 Duo E4500...
there is no onboard VGA on the motherboard, only a PCI (or PCIe? I'll
have to look) video card. I tried doing the install with all the F6
kernel options specified: acpi=off noapic nolapic edd=on nodmraid and it
still froze at
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