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shannon3
February 21st, 2015, 03:19 AM
What does this mean and how do I fix it? I'm installing the latest version from a cd onto a newly built computer With an MSI A78M-E35 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard and AMD A8-6600K 3.9GHz Quad-Core Processor.
ubfan1
February 21st, 2015, 03:23 AM
Is this a UEFI machine? Is your hard disk sda? Sometimes sda is actually the install media.
kerry_s
February 21st, 2015, 03:23 AM
the latest version ? 15, 14.10, 14.04.2, ...?
shannon3
February 21st, 2015, 03:52 AM
I think it's 14.04.1. I'm trying to put it on Samsung 120GB ssd. I don't know what uefi is.
shannon3
February 21st, 2015, 03:55 AM
It looks like I van try it out from the disk. Everything appears on the desktop but when I click install everything starts to install until the end when I get the error message.
shannon3
February 21st, 2015, 04:36 AM
I looked around the mb bios and it seems to be running legacy+uefi. I can change that to uefi only...should I ?
tokyobadger
February 21st, 2015, 09:20 AM
could be worth reading these UEFI install tips (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2147295)
shannon3
February 21st, 2015, 10:16 AM
Just tried 14.04.2LTS. Same error message. I think I'm in way over my head here.
fantab
February 21st, 2015, 05:30 PM
Boot from the Ubuntu DVD/USB and 'try ubuntu', install boot-repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair), run 'create bootinfo summary' and note down the url link to the bootinfo file and paste the url here.
Bootinfo will give a detailed look into your boot process, and we need to look at it.
shannon3
February 22nd, 2015, 02:18 AM
Got it installed! I figured out what I was doing wrong running the boot repair tool. After typing that first command and pressing enter, I didn't hit enter again, I just typed in the next command. So of course it couldn't find the boot repair because it hadn't been downloaded yet. :( chalk it up to being a newbie I guess. Thanks everyone for the help. I'm sure I'll be spending a lot of time on these forums figuring things out. Thanks again!