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tarmac515
August 14th, 2014, 08:46 PM
Ok, so I appear to be having issues with random reboots after changing a hard drive to an SSD. I am convinced that this is due to this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1309578
I did manage to get 14.04 working ok before I swapped the hard drive by amending the graphics drivers but this does not appear to be doing the trick this time.

So as a few others are having issued with MSI boards and AMD APU chips I followed this advice:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1309578

Reading through this I kept the mouse moving throughout the install and it did the trick despite being a little bizarre. So I have installed 14.04.1 successfully I then continued to followed some advice on the post to:

"from the terminal type; gedit /etc/default/grub The file will open in the editor.
edit this line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash '
to look like this;
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash noapic"
then I ran -
sudo update-grub

But this still results in random reboots?

Anything I can change in grub or should i do:

apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-saucy

Any help would be great!


System spec:
AMD A6-6400K APU dual core cpu
64bit Ubuntu 14.04
MSI M'board - A88XM-E35 (FM2)
Memory 4GB Corsair Value
PNY SSD120GB

tarmac515
August 16th, 2014, 12:34 PM
So have been trying a few things

I replaced "noapic" with "acpi=off" which resulted in the pc rebooting everytime i shut it down and would not boot without recovery.

edited grub again to "noapic", then went to additonal drivers and changed to fglrx-updates graphics driver, which still resulted in reboots.

tried to install lubuntu 14.04.1 as I read this worked OK, but was it just rebooted as soon as the desktop appeared

so then reinstalled ubuntu 14.04.1 again - went ok,

then tried to upgrade the kernel to 3.16.1 running these commands from here:http://www.yourownlinux.com/2014/08/how-to-install-linux-kernel-3-16-1-in-linux.html
but the final package was not available or wrong so I could not complete the upgrade.

i'm guessing upgrading the kernel is going to be the easist way to solve?
Any ideas when 3.16 will be provided as an ubuntu update?

thanks,

code from: http://www.yourownlinux.com/2014/08/how-to-install-linux-kernel-3-16-1-in-linux.html

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.16.1-utopic/linux-headers-3.16.1-031601_3.16.1-031601.201408140014_all.deb

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.16.1-utopic/linux-headers-3.16.1-031601-generic_3.16.1-031601.201408140014_i386.deb

$ wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.16.1-utopic/linux-image-3.16.1-031601-generic_3.16.1-031601.201408140014_i386.deb


$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.16.1*.deb linux-image-3.16.1*.deb

(i'm assuming I can leave the * as a wildcard or do i need to specify?)

sudo reboot