BoyanSemerdzhiev
May 21st, 2008, 02:19 PM
So I just got the 8.04 LTS CDs in my mailbox and like a kid with a new toy, I was eager to try it out. I own a humble Inspiron laptop with the following specs: AMD Turion X2 64bit@1600 MHz, 2GB@667MHz Kingston RAM, 120 GB SATA Samsung HDD and an ATI onboard GPU. BIOS version: 2.6.3.
It boots the Live CD just fine and quick, I go through the collection of personal info, set up a ext3 and a swap partition just right, and then it starts.
First it hangs just before the start of the installation, on "Creating Ext3 File System" for about 5 minutes before resuming. Then everything is fine until i try to boot the fresh-installed OS. The booting process takes between 7 and 8 minutes. I removed the "quiet" and "splash" parameters from the kernel boot line and it seems to stall on three different messages in a loop:
1) ata1: SATA link up 1,5 Gbps(SStatus 113 SControl 300)
2) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 sec
3) [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, does not support ...
Additional info:
1) I read reddeadresolve's articles about installing Ubuntu on Inspiron 1501. Although I couldn't find any connection between my problem and the solutions described by him, I tried them and they didn't work.
2) I tried adding both "pci=nomsi" and "hda=noprobe" parameters to the kernel boot line, neither worked. (read about it in a slackware forum).
Any help on the problem would be appreciated.
It boots the Live CD just fine and quick, I go through the collection of personal info, set up a ext3 and a swap partition just right, and then it starts.
First it hangs just before the start of the installation, on "Creating Ext3 File System" for about 5 minutes before resuming. Then everything is fine until i try to boot the fresh-installed OS. The booting process takes between 7 and 8 minutes. I removed the "quiet" and "splash" parameters from the kernel boot line and it seems to stall on three different messages in a loop:
1) ata1: SATA link up 1,5 Gbps(SStatus 113 SControl 300)
2) ata1: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 sec
3) [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, does not support ...
Additional info:
1) I read reddeadresolve's articles about installing Ubuntu on Inspiron 1501. Although I couldn't find any connection between my problem and the solutions described by him, I tried them and they didn't work.
2) I tried adding both "pci=nomsi" and "hda=noprobe" parameters to the kernel boot line, neither worked. (read about it in a slackware forum).
Any help on the problem would be appreciated.