Yes, mine is a PIII. I have been running Xubuntu 8.10 on the machine with no problems.
After I was unable to boot from a clean install of 9.04, I did a clean install of 8.10 and then upgraded to 9.04. The upgrade went fine until the reboot when the exact same problem occurred (identical to what you have described). Today I was able to boot into the machine by selecting the Linux kernel 2.6.27-7 at boot. The problem, then, appears to lie with the kernel. Interestingly, however, after doing the clean install of 9.04 and selecting ext4 as the filesystem, I was not even able to perform another clean install of 9.04. So, my workaround for this is currently as follows (worked on my system with Xubuntu): 1. Do a clean install of 8.10. 2. Upgrade to 9.04 using Synaptic. I did not perform any other updates, just went straight for the upgrade. 3. On boot, follow the prompts to hit the escape key and get the boot menu (my machine gives me two seconds to do this). 4. Select kernel 2.6.27-7. Machine boots up, System Monitor shows Ubuntu Release 9.04 (jaunty), Kernel Linux 2.6.27-7-generic, and GNOME 2.26.1. -- install failure with older laptop PII https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353350 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
