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    8.04 Installation Troubles

    Specs:
    4gig of RAM
    Q6600
    8800GTX
    SATA optical drive

    I downloaded the live disk. 64bit version. I just wanted to see if the live disk worked so I tryed and I would get to the loading bar and then it would just keep moving back and forth until this showed up: http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=smallla8.jpg . I then tried to just install it and the same thing happened. I am a linux noob and really need some help. I tried installing 7.10 a few months ago, but had problems too (Would just go black after selecting an option at the first screen). Thank you for reading
    Last edited by antonwalker; May 9th, 2008 at 04:32 AM.

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    Do you have a floppy disk drive? If so, remove the drive and then try booting the Live CD again.
    Think carefully before executing commands containing "rm", especially "sudo rm -rf ", if you require more information concerning this matter, read this.
    I am an experimenter, give me the most stable OS and I can make it unstable in a few hours.

    C == seriously fast == FTW!

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    I do not have a floppy drive

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    I installed from wubi and it still happens. I am pretty sure in the BIOS I have it disabled.

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    Same problem

    My Specs are
    * AMD Athlon X2
    * 4GB DDR
    * ATI X1800
    * Audigy Sound Blaster SB0160
    * Hauppage TV Tuner.

    Error-
    [ 0.000000] ata5.00: Exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
    [ 0.000000] ata5.00: CPB resp_flags 0x11 , CMD error
    [ 0.000000] ata5.00: cmd c8/00:f8:3f:a0:23/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 dma 126976 in
    [ 0.000000] ata5.00: Status: { DRDY ERR }
    [ 0.000000] ata5.00: error: { UNC }
    [ 0.000000]
    [ 0.000000] HARDWARE ERROR
    [ 0.000000] CPU 0: Machine Check Exception:
    [ 0.000000] TSC 20cbaa7a14
    [ 0.000000] This is not a software problem!
    [ 0.000000] Run though mcelog --ascii to decode and contact your hardware vendor.
    [ 0.000000] Kernal panic - not syncing: Machine Check

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    I dont think they are the same lol

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    Quote Originally Posted by antonwalker View Post
    I dont think they are the same lol
    Sorry you are right they do look a little similar, i unfortunatly didn't read the entire code and just saw a few key words. i am sorry.

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    So does anyone know what could be up?

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    I can run it under vmplayer

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    Re: 8.04 Installation Troubles

    I am experiencing a nearly identical problem after upgrading my Gutsy Dell. Here's an x-post of what I put in the poll thread a couple minutes ago.

    I purchased a Gutsy Dell a couple months ago and took the leap upgrading to Heron tonight by answering the auto-updaters call to action. I wish I had done a little more homework and known that I could expect problems, but that comes with the territory and I guess I should hope to find a few, as the educators say, "teachable moments" in here.

    I'm really hoping somebody can help me through the problems, so here goes.

    The upgrading process seemed to go fine, but then after I rebooted at its conclusion I found that my box hangs on startup and just grinds through a series of cryptic error messages I've never seen before that I suspect having something to do with my harddrive. They read like the following, with ever increasing numbers in the left hand bracket. (Please forgive any typos as I am reproducing this by hand on my laptop)

    [ 427.106648] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 Serr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
    [ 427.106648] ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:24:0/00:00:00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in
    [ 427.106648] ata2.00: status { DRDY }
    ...
    [ 583.564700] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 Serr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
    [ 583.564700] ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:24:0/00:00:00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 pio 36 in
    [ 583.564700] ata2.00: status { DRDY }

    Anybody know what's up with that? I worry that it means something is wrong with my hardware, but I never had any problems until this upgrade...and the box is only a month or two old.

    If, on startup, I hit ESC for the boot menu and select "Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic" instead of the default "Ubuntu, 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic," the operating system with successfully launch, but my monitor config is (the default Dell NVIDIA that I had tweaked in Gutsy to run across two 20" monitors) totally shot and running only in 800x600, plus the boot up routine is weirded out and asks me to login from a command-line like environment in addition to the standard Ubuntu login prompt.

    Anybody have any idea what's up with this stuff and what I can do? Any Dell Ubuntu users experience similar problems?

    Really the only thing on the box I'd hate to lose is my collection of CDs that I've ripped to MP3. I don't currently have them backed up anywhere and it would be a huge pain to rerip -- plus I've given many of them away to friends now that I have them on digital. =(

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