Kartari
January 4th, 2009, 08:13 AM
After three attempts, I finally got Ubuntu 8.10 installed without apparent error. I received a display error each of the first two attempts, one was a blue screen with text saying something like my display package was botched (my wording, I don't recall exactly what it said), and that it would try again in two minutes, and did not retry until I hit ENTER (which repeated every time I hit ENTER to try again). The second resulted in screen gibberish or artifacts. Both cases required restart and redo from scratch (e.g. deleted the ext3 and swap partitions and remade them). This third time seems to have succeeded (e.g. I could reboot after Ubuntu reported success). However, my system does not recognize the main ext3 partition as bootable, which is my concern now (I mention the previous errors in case they may be related somehow).
I have an AMD Sempron 3000, with 2 GB DDR400 RAM and a 300 GB SATA hard drive. I have five primary partitions (yes, five), managed by BootIT NG (which allows more than four primary partitions), as follows and in this order: two NTFS partitions (one 60 GB for Windows XP Pro SP3, one 208 GB for my documents), one 8 MB partition for the BootIT NG EMBR, one 30 GB ext3 partition for Ubuntu and one 3 GB swap partition for Ubuntu. The first three partitions have been there, the last two obviously added for installing Ubuntu.
Is Ubuntu incompatible with BootIT NG (even though it recognizes Linux ext3 and swap partitions and is made for multiple OS systems)? Does Ubuntu need to be the first partition to boot? Or is there another reason why it won't boot from the hard drive after an apparently successful installation?
Thanks! From a newbie to Ubuntu.
I have an AMD Sempron 3000, with 2 GB DDR400 RAM and a 300 GB SATA hard drive. I have five primary partitions (yes, five), managed by BootIT NG (which allows more than four primary partitions), as follows and in this order: two NTFS partitions (one 60 GB for Windows XP Pro SP3, one 208 GB for my documents), one 8 MB partition for the BootIT NG EMBR, one 30 GB ext3 partition for Ubuntu and one 3 GB swap partition for Ubuntu. The first three partitions have been there, the last two obviously added for installing Ubuntu.
Is Ubuntu incompatible with BootIT NG (even though it recognizes Linux ext3 and swap partitions and is made for multiple OS systems)? Does Ubuntu need to be the first partition to boot? Or is there another reason why it won't boot from the hard drive after an apparently successful installation?
Thanks! From a newbie to Ubuntu.