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March 19th, 2015, 12:42 AM
Hello everyone,
Okay let me start with where I am now to cut a long story short, I am trying to install any kind of ubuntu I have tried xubuntu, ubuntu normal, and ideally the one which I actually want to install which is ubuntu server, now I went out and bought a SATA DVD drive and burnt the ISO to a disc and it boots just fine, but when It gets to the step
checking media and other hardware it throws the same error I have been getting with a USB stick and with frugal installs the lot.
Okay so long version being first thing I tried before I bought the DVD drive was a simple bootable USB stick using universal usb installer (tried unetbootin too but I will get to that), and well it boots just fine and it gets passed the stage of detecting cd rom and other hardware, I am able to get to the partition stage but when I boot from USB it somehow disables the sata HDD I have plugged in and so I can only find my mem stick and thats where I am booting from, It does say to unmount partitions because of course the mem stick is being used but I have tried both answering YES and NO to that question and it still can not find my hard drive.
The hard drive shows up just fine in BIOS and the boot order was USB then HDD, and when I switch it and try getting the F11/F12 boot menu the mem stick is not there, so the only choice is to change to the mem stick to boot first, but then like I said the HDD is not there. Okay so I figured ah well I will try a live cd, still same issue, I even tried to list the devices and check in gparted etc no HDD just the USB drive.
So after hours upon hours I tried to install it on a different PC, I plugged the HDD into my other pc and it booted the USB stick fine and installed fine, and booted the OS, but because I removed the HDD to the other pc GRUB messed around, even when I tried various different ways of installing grub it just refused to start up on the pc I actually want the server on. I have tried editing the grub using grub command line, I have tried to edit the boot config with E, which for some reason has the mem stick (hd1,msdos1) when it needs to be (hd0,msdos1), I tried editing that and it still didnt work, dont even know if it saved.
So I then tried hours on hours to try fix grub, even downloaded a grub fixer which boots some flavour of linux with XFCE on and a GUI program to fix the grub, but again it couldnt detect the other HDD with the ubuntu OS on it. Eventually I tried a PXE boot and I realized the motherboard didnt support network boot so that came to a dead end.
So after a few days of trying to get this to work I gave up and bought a DVD drive (ancient things I know) not owned one in at least 5-6 years, and got by installing operating systems with a USB stick and failing that I have even installed easily with PXE or frugal installs, this time the pc isnt having it.... I boot from the CD rom freshly burnt and it boots fine chose the language and everything then it says basically the disc isnt inserted which I the same issue I had with a frugal install, now I know from experience the frugal install has done this before I have even had this issue with a mem stick I just go into command line and mount the mem stick as /cdrom, but as I am literally using the CD rom now I am completely lost.
So long story short this motherboard is being a complete b***h and I really need something to start with to get a decent linux machine up from it. So I am stuck at the error saying the CD rom cant be mounted, I have tried to eject the disc and re-insert it, I have even tried something to do with IDE=nodma. I have searched for hours and hours all over the internet on all aspects of all the problems I have come across, and I figured using a DVD would be best because I can see the HDD this time but now its a problem with the damn install media!
PS. even tried wubi and for some reason even that fails to work.
Okay let me start with where I am now to cut a long story short, I am trying to install any kind of ubuntu I have tried xubuntu, ubuntu normal, and ideally the one which I actually want to install which is ubuntu server, now I went out and bought a SATA DVD drive and burnt the ISO to a disc and it boots just fine, but when It gets to the step
checking media and other hardware it throws the same error I have been getting with a USB stick and with frugal installs the lot.
Okay so long version being first thing I tried before I bought the DVD drive was a simple bootable USB stick using universal usb installer (tried unetbootin too but I will get to that), and well it boots just fine and it gets passed the stage of detecting cd rom and other hardware, I am able to get to the partition stage but when I boot from USB it somehow disables the sata HDD I have plugged in and so I can only find my mem stick and thats where I am booting from, It does say to unmount partitions because of course the mem stick is being used but I have tried both answering YES and NO to that question and it still can not find my hard drive.
The hard drive shows up just fine in BIOS and the boot order was USB then HDD, and when I switch it and try getting the F11/F12 boot menu the mem stick is not there, so the only choice is to change to the mem stick to boot first, but then like I said the HDD is not there. Okay so I figured ah well I will try a live cd, still same issue, I even tried to list the devices and check in gparted etc no HDD just the USB drive.
So after hours upon hours I tried to install it on a different PC, I plugged the HDD into my other pc and it booted the USB stick fine and installed fine, and booted the OS, but because I removed the HDD to the other pc GRUB messed around, even when I tried various different ways of installing grub it just refused to start up on the pc I actually want the server on. I have tried editing the grub using grub command line, I have tried to edit the boot config with E, which for some reason has the mem stick (hd1,msdos1) when it needs to be (hd0,msdos1), I tried editing that and it still didnt work, dont even know if it saved.
So I then tried hours on hours to try fix grub, even downloaded a grub fixer which boots some flavour of linux with XFCE on and a GUI program to fix the grub, but again it couldnt detect the other HDD with the ubuntu OS on it. Eventually I tried a PXE boot and I realized the motherboard didnt support network boot so that came to a dead end.
So after a few days of trying to get this to work I gave up and bought a DVD drive (ancient things I know) not owned one in at least 5-6 years, and got by installing operating systems with a USB stick and failing that I have even installed easily with PXE or frugal installs, this time the pc isnt having it.... I boot from the CD rom freshly burnt and it boots fine chose the language and everything then it says basically the disc isnt inserted which I the same issue I had with a frugal install, now I know from experience the frugal install has done this before I have even had this issue with a mem stick I just go into command line and mount the mem stick as /cdrom, but as I am literally using the CD rom now I am completely lost.
So long story short this motherboard is being a complete b***h and I really need something to start with to get a decent linux machine up from it. So I am stuck at the error saying the CD rom cant be mounted, I have tried to eject the disc and re-insert it, I have even tried something to do with IDE=nodma. I have searched for hours and hours all over the internet on all aspects of all the problems I have come across, and I figured using a DVD would be best because I can see the HDD this time but now its a problem with the damn install media!
PS. even tried wubi and for some reason even that fails to work.