pentag
September 11th, 2009, 02:00 AM
I've been having a huge number of problems trying to get ubuntu installed on my PC.
I have windows 7 RC installed in one partition a (NTFS) data partition, and want to install ubuntu 64-bit on a third partition of my 1.5 TB HDD.
I first tried using the latest version of Ubuntu. Booting via the CD allowed me to go through the first few install screens, until it 'could not detect common CD-ROM drive' (or something similar). A bit of searching found a few people had similar problems, but the various proposed solutions I saw didn't seem to work.
I then tried booting from USB, which again started fine untill in mid installation I got an error about how the BIOS delivered something, and the install failed.
I read someone had had similar difficulties with 9.04 and 8.10 but was OK with 8.04, so I tried the 8.04 cd. This time the install generally went OK except at 94% grub-install failed. Searching showed several people had had this problem, but simply choosing a different partition didn't seem to solve the problem for me. Installing without a boot loader went through fine. I tried separately installing grub after booting again from the live CD (chroot into the installed but unbootable ubuntu and the use apt-get install) but for some reason apt-get install grub failed.
I have only basic linux familiarity, and am now unsure of what the problem is, or where to go. I don't want to continue to downloafd different versions because I have a download limit and I've already downloaded 1.5GB in two different distributions (I still have both).
One reason I think there could be problems potentially is that bth my harddrive and cdrom are sata ii devices, and as such appear as the master on ide channels 1 and 2 of my motherboard - channel 0 is empty.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get either of these versions to install correctly? I currently have a valid (I think) install of 8.04 but without grub.
My specs are:
AMD phenom ii x3 cpu
4gb ddr2
1.5tb sata ii hdd
sata ii dvd multi odd
gigabyte ma785gm-us2h mobo
I have windows 7 RC installed in one partition a (NTFS) data partition, and want to install ubuntu 64-bit on a third partition of my 1.5 TB HDD.
I first tried using the latest version of Ubuntu. Booting via the CD allowed me to go through the first few install screens, until it 'could not detect common CD-ROM drive' (or something similar). A bit of searching found a few people had similar problems, but the various proposed solutions I saw didn't seem to work.
I then tried booting from USB, which again started fine untill in mid installation I got an error about how the BIOS delivered something, and the install failed.
I read someone had had similar difficulties with 9.04 and 8.10 but was OK with 8.04, so I tried the 8.04 cd. This time the install generally went OK except at 94% grub-install failed. Searching showed several people had had this problem, but simply choosing a different partition didn't seem to solve the problem for me. Installing without a boot loader went through fine. I tried separately installing grub after booting again from the live CD (chroot into the installed but unbootable ubuntu and the use apt-get install) but for some reason apt-get install grub failed.
I have only basic linux familiarity, and am now unsure of what the problem is, or where to go. I don't want to continue to downloafd different versions because I have a download limit and I've already downloaded 1.5GB in two different distributions (I still have both).
One reason I think there could be problems potentially is that bth my harddrive and cdrom are sata ii devices, and as such appear as the master on ide channels 1 and 2 of my motherboard - channel 0 is empty.
Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can get either of these versions to install correctly? I currently have a valid (I think) install of 8.04 but without grub.
My specs are:
AMD phenom ii x3 cpu
4gb ddr2
1.5tb sata ii hdd
sata ii dvd multi odd
gigabyte ma785gm-us2h mobo