marcosscriven
April 28th, 2008, 09:46 AM
Long story short: I spent the entire weekend reading forums, playing with endless BIOS settings, and installing various flavours of Ubuntu 8.10, ALL to no avail.
I tried both the 32- and 64-bit versions, both in the desktop and alternate.
The 64-bit version, on either CD type, just hangs at 100% when it says "Kernel Loading"
The 32-bit version gets a bit further, but after the loaded page of the Live distro, just goes to a white screen. Pressing ctrl-alt-del seems to bring the CD drive back to life, but nothing else happens.
I've read a few things that say the Sata controller is 'overloaded' on my board, and that that's the issue. I've also read about changing the the BIOS setting to any/all of the alternatives: IDE, RAID, ACHI
I've read tonnes about trying different options like irqpoll, achi=off and so forth.
Again, ALL to no avail.
What's REALLY frustrating is the 7.10 32-bit loaded first time, no problems (though 7.10 64-bit didn't).
If Ubuntu can get it right for 7.10, why can't they get it right for 8.04?
Why do I see SO often on these sorts of threads that it's the hardware's fault?!!!
Can anyone give me a realiable way to ensure I can get 8.10 installed?
Thanks
Marcos
I tried both the 32- and 64-bit versions, both in the desktop and alternate.
The 64-bit version, on either CD type, just hangs at 100% when it says "Kernel Loading"
The 32-bit version gets a bit further, but after the loaded page of the Live distro, just goes to a white screen. Pressing ctrl-alt-del seems to bring the CD drive back to life, but nothing else happens.
I've read a few things that say the Sata controller is 'overloaded' on my board, and that that's the issue. I've also read about changing the the BIOS setting to any/all of the alternatives: IDE, RAID, ACHI
I've read tonnes about trying different options like irqpoll, achi=off and so forth.
Again, ALL to no avail.
What's REALLY frustrating is the 7.10 32-bit loaded first time, no problems (though 7.10 64-bit didn't).
If Ubuntu can get it right for 7.10, why can't they get it right for 8.04?
Why do I see SO often on these sorts of threads that it's the hardware's fault?!!!
Can anyone give me a realiable way to ensure I can get 8.10 installed?
Thanks
Marcos