pgn674
March 18th, 2012, 08:46 PM
I've built myself a new computer, with this configuration:
Motherboard: EVGA Z68 SLI (Intel Z68 north bridge)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC)
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 (Sandy Bridge)
Disks: 2 of: OCZ Octane OCT1-25SAT3-128G SSD SATA III, in a RAID 0
I set up the RAID 0 in the BIOS using Intel Rapid Storage Technology, which I think means it's a fakeRAID. I'm using a firmware level RAID because I will be dual booting Windows and Linux. The BIOS is EVGA UEFI v. 685 A105 x64. Other than the RAID, all BIOS settings are at default.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 amd64. I have already installed Windows 7 Pro x64, telling it to partition and install to half of the RAID0 volume (called 'volume0'). I have downloaded the desktop and alternative installers, and burned them to DVD and used LiLi USB Creator to create bootable flash drives from them.
For the desktop installer, from both mediums, it scrolls through some text, and stops after finding my USB mouse and keyboard (and flash drive if I'm using that). It then just stays there, though sometimes it reboots the computer at a seemingly random time. The longest I have waited is 10 minutes.
For the alternative installer on both mediums, all seems to go OK (well, one time the "Select and install software" step kept failing), but then at some seemingly random time the computer reboots.
The RAM tested OK. I tried checking the CD from the installer in both the desktop and alternative installers, but it always rebooted before finishing.
Has anybody installed Ubuntu on this hardware or in this kind of configuration? I've looked at the FakeRaidHowto - Community Ubuntu Documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto), but it only goes up to 10.04, and it basically says everything will take care of itself for that version. I've seen hints around of setting nomodeset for the graphics card, and adding libata.ignore_hpa=0 for the RAID0, but they haven't helped. I've also seen that GRUB may need to be installed to a non-RAID part, but the boot up installer keeps stopping or the computer keeps restarting before it gets to the GRUB step. If I have to re-do the RAID and reinstall Windows, that's OK; I've barely configured it. In Windows, the system is completely stable.
If anyone can provide any help or hints or troubleshooting steps, that would be awesome.
Motherboard: EVGA Z68 SLI (Intel Z68 north bridge)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC)
CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 (Sandy Bridge)
Disks: 2 of: OCZ Octane OCT1-25SAT3-128G SSD SATA III, in a RAID 0
I set up the RAID 0 in the BIOS using Intel Rapid Storage Technology, which I think means it's a fakeRAID. I'm using a firmware level RAID because I will be dual booting Windows and Linux. The BIOS is EVGA UEFI v. 685 A105 x64. Other than the RAID, all BIOS settings are at default.
I am trying to install Ubuntu 11.10 amd64. I have already installed Windows 7 Pro x64, telling it to partition and install to half of the RAID0 volume (called 'volume0'). I have downloaded the desktop and alternative installers, and burned them to DVD and used LiLi USB Creator to create bootable flash drives from them.
For the desktop installer, from both mediums, it scrolls through some text, and stops after finding my USB mouse and keyboard (and flash drive if I'm using that). It then just stays there, though sometimes it reboots the computer at a seemingly random time. The longest I have waited is 10 minutes.
For the alternative installer on both mediums, all seems to go OK (well, one time the "Select and install software" step kept failing), but then at some seemingly random time the computer reboots.
The RAM tested OK. I tried checking the CD from the installer in both the desktop and alternative installers, but it always rebooted before finishing.
Has anybody installed Ubuntu on this hardware or in this kind of configuration? I've looked at the FakeRaidHowto - Community Ubuntu Documentation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto), but it only goes up to 10.04, and it basically says everything will take care of itself for that version. I've seen hints around of setting nomodeset for the graphics card, and adding libata.ignore_hpa=0 for the RAID0, but they haven't helped. I've also seen that GRUB may need to be installed to a non-RAID part, but the boot up installer keeps stopping or the computer keeps restarting before it gets to the GRUB step. If I have to re-do the RAID and reinstall Windows, that's OK; I've barely configured it. In Windows, the system is completely stable.
If anyone can provide any help or hints or troubleshooting steps, that would be awesome.