nrdlevans
July 18th, 2008, 03:31 AM
I am having problems installing Ubuntu. I recently dropped by Best Buy and purchased the latest copy of Ubuntu. While I know I could have downloaded the software, I wanted to help promote the selling of Linux at a favorite retailer.
After having installed multiple flavors of Linux before I expected to plop my new CD into my drive, nuke all the partitions and load a fresh operating system. The same physical hardware had previously had multiple flavors of Suse and Mandrake and should easily run Ubuntu.
Ubuntu does boot into the installation and installs. Upon performing the initial boot, the system dies with a "Invalid Partition Table" message. It does this if I use all the default or attempt to manually partition the drives.
I suspect the problem might be related to how Ubuntu sees the hard drives. My system has two controllers holding a total of 4 IDE chains. I have a single IDE drive which I plan on hosting the OS. A Promise Ultra 133TX2 holds four 300 GB IDE drives which has, on other flavors, held a RAID system. I completely wiped all drives prior to installation.
Other Linux flavors see the motherboards IDE drive first, Ubuntu sees the Promise drives first. Ubuntu identifies the first drive as sda through sdd. The motherboards drive is seen as sde.
If I physically remove the promise controller or the motherboard ide chain things work. If I keep them both installed everything dies.
Anyone have any good ideas for me?
After having installed multiple flavors of Linux before I expected to plop my new CD into my drive, nuke all the partitions and load a fresh operating system. The same physical hardware had previously had multiple flavors of Suse and Mandrake and should easily run Ubuntu.
Ubuntu does boot into the installation and installs. Upon performing the initial boot, the system dies with a "Invalid Partition Table" message. It does this if I use all the default or attempt to manually partition the drives.
I suspect the problem might be related to how Ubuntu sees the hard drives. My system has two controllers holding a total of 4 IDE chains. I have a single IDE drive which I plan on hosting the OS. A Promise Ultra 133TX2 holds four 300 GB IDE drives which has, on other flavors, held a RAID system. I completely wiped all drives prior to installation.
Other Linux flavors see the motherboards IDE drive first, Ubuntu sees the Promise drives first. Ubuntu identifies the first drive as sda through sdd. The motherboards drive is seen as sde.
If I physically remove the promise controller or the motherboard ide chain things work. If I keep them both installed everything dies.
Anyone have any good ideas for me?