quantim
February 9th, 2009, 02:17 AM
Hi all,
I've been running ubuntu on and off as my nix distro of choice for a few years now, and with the later versions i've run into problems when installing. Essentially ubuntu thinks my legacy desktop PCs are laptops.
When I install ubuntu, it does not detect my IDE drives and instead detects them as SCSI. Once the install is completed, instead of the desktop-style shutdown/restart icon (red circle with the line, like an off button), it displays the little green running man shutdown/restart icon, which is usually only for laptops. My desktop does NOT have a 'hibernate' option as it is not a laptop. This also means that when i 'shutdown' the computer it doesn't switch itself off, it gets to the point where the ubuntu black-bar has reached the end, then the computer just freezes. I imagine this is because ubuntu is looking for a laptop type of PSU rather than an ATX PSU
installing in 'expert' or OEM mode doesn't allow me to change this problem. I've searched these forums and had trouble finding anyone with a similar problem.
i've been running ubuntu for months with this problem on this pc
SiS 730s MoBo
IDE 1 - 8GB (my /boot directory)
IDE 2 - 160GB (partitioned for a ******* install, along with my nix home directory)
here's an lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 82)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX200] (rev b2)
and and fdisk -l output:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 973 7815591 83 Linux
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2614 20996923+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 2615 19457 135291397+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2615 8515 47393608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 16175 19457 26370666 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 16082 16174 746991 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 8516 16081 60773863+ 83 Linux
this is silly, older ubuntu (and other linux distros) used to 'know' these were hda...
as a test, i installed Debian on an even older PC and it detected the drives fine, it knew they were hda not sda... but now i'm installing xubuntu and get the same problem as with ubuntu
aaargh i have NO IDEA why ubuntu is detecting it like this
any help i could get would be much appreciated :D
I've been running ubuntu on and off as my nix distro of choice for a few years now, and with the later versions i've run into problems when installing. Essentially ubuntu thinks my legacy desktop PCs are laptops.
When I install ubuntu, it does not detect my IDE drives and instead detects them as SCSI. Once the install is completed, instead of the desktop-style shutdown/restart icon (red circle with the line, like an off button), it displays the little green running man shutdown/restart icon, which is usually only for laptops. My desktop does NOT have a 'hibernate' option as it is not a laptop. This also means that when i 'shutdown' the computer it doesn't switch itself off, it gets to the point where the ubuntu black-bar has reached the end, then the computer just freezes. I imagine this is because ubuntu is looking for a laptop type of PSU rather than an ATX PSU
installing in 'expert' or OEM mode doesn't allow me to change this problem. I've searched these forums and had trouble finding anyone with a similar problem.
i've been running ubuntu for months with this problem on this pc
SiS 730s MoBo
IDE 1 - 8GB (my /boot directory)
IDE 2 - 160GB (partitioned for a ******* install, along with my nix home directory)
here's an lspci output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 730 Host (rev 02)
00:00.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 (LPC Bridge)
00:01.1 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI Fast Ethernet (rev 82)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller (rev 07)
00:01.4 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS PCI Audio Accelerator (rev 02)
00:01.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] AC'97 Modem Controller (rev a0)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11DDR [GeForce2 MX200] (rev b2)
and and fdisk -l output:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 973 7815591 83 Linux
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2614 20996923+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 2615 19457 135291397+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2615 8515 47393608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 16175 19457 26370666 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 16082 16174 746991 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb8 8516 16081 60773863+ 83 Linux
this is silly, older ubuntu (and other linux distros) used to 'know' these were hda...
as a test, i installed Debian on an even older PC and it detected the drives fine, it knew they were hda not sda... but now i'm installing xubuntu and get the same problem as with ubuntu
aaargh i have NO IDEA why ubuntu is detecting it like this
any help i could get would be much appreciated :D