Hi Michael, Two problems.. firstly, in the BIOS, make sure that the hard drive is listed as one of the devices to boot from.
Secondly.. You can also check the BIOS to see if 'embeded LAN interface' is enabled. This won't help immediately, but will give us some more information.. >From the command line.. can you please save the input from the 'lspci' command and post it to the list.. it will tell us what ethernet device the kernel. (A USB stick might help getting the file off.) lspci > lspci-data.txt Then copy the file lspci-data.txt, and email it here. Cheers, Paul On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Michael Harold <mike.har...@optusnet.com> wrote: > Hi the List, > > Recently upgraded my desk-top with a Gigabyte S-series GA-G31M-ES2L > complete with a Pentium E6300 dual core processor. The new BIOS is an > Award Modular v6.00PG version FB. > > Ubuntu 9.04 loaded quickly from the CD so I thought "Great!" - Wrong! > > The only way the OS loads is if the System disk (Ubuntu 9.04) is in the > CD tray. Then I can choose "Boot from First Hard Disk" from the menu and > it does and I can choose between the two hard drives. The second carries > the 9.04 OS that worked perfectly on the old motherboard and processor > and of course has all my files on it. > > Not too bad. Unfortunately, the LAN connection to my wireless modem does > not work now, so no Internet or Mail. (Luckily my laptop does not suffer > from that!) > > Accessing the BIOS Set-up tests for the connection and reports that it > is good. > > Contacting Gigabyte got the usual response - No assistance for Linux! > > >From memory, the first time I tried to start Ubuntu after the install a > message came up that the BIOS could not find a file it was looking for. > Possibly that file exists in the various Windows boot sequences, its > content unknown. If there is a way of getting the BIOS to recognise the > Ubuntu Boot Sequence it would be appreciated. > > Not using the command line very much, I have no idea what commands are > required that would force a search of the IO hardware for that > connection and / or make it. > > Anybody have any ideas? > > Regards, > > MikeH > > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
