trey333om
November 7th, 2009, 06:20 AM
I'm not trying to sound dramatic. I'm not a newbie. My EEE900 is bricked because of trying to install Karmic. This is a version of Bug 387272 in Launchpad made extreme by my persistence in trying to to get Karmic installed.
The problem: my two SSD drives are locked or dead. Fdisk and gparted in Crunchbang 9.04 doesn't even see them. Crunchbang and Ubuntu 9.04 install partitioner can "see" the drives, but I get I/O errors when it tries to format for install. Even a live USB of Gparted only sees the USB drive it's booting from.
The history: Tried installing Karmic NBR. All sorts of errors on reboot. Third reboot GRUB error. Reinstall on the 16gb drive. Same errors on GRUB after a reboot or two. Try again. Try installing Jaunty, then upgrading. Same problem. Now I am where I am.
Where I am now: my $500 computer is a doorstop right now. This is entirely Karmic's doing. This is not a preexisting hardware issue. Karmic or its kernel did something fundamentally evil and seemingly permanent to my hardware.
Other issues: Launchpad still doesn't think this is a big problem. No one in the Ubuntu IRC channel had any interest in helping. This is more than disappointing, this is infuriating. How can a bug this big make it to release? Am I really out the cost of two new SSD drives to get my computer working again?
The problem: my two SSD drives are locked or dead. Fdisk and gparted in Crunchbang 9.04 doesn't even see them. Crunchbang and Ubuntu 9.04 install partitioner can "see" the drives, but I get I/O errors when it tries to format for install. Even a live USB of Gparted only sees the USB drive it's booting from.
The history: Tried installing Karmic NBR. All sorts of errors on reboot. Third reboot GRUB error. Reinstall on the 16gb drive. Same errors on GRUB after a reboot or two. Try again. Try installing Jaunty, then upgrading. Same problem. Now I am where I am.
Where I am now: my $500 computer is a doorstop right now. This is entirely Karmic's doing. This is not a preexisting hardware issue. Karmic or its kernel did something fundamentally evil and seemingly permanent to my hardware.
Other issues: Launchpad still doesn't think this is a big problem. No one in the Ubuntu IRC channel had any interest in helping. This is more than disappointing, this is infuriating. How can a bug this big make it to release? Am I really out the cost of two new SSD drives to get my computer working again?