AbeBorker
August 27th, 2008, 03:48 PM
Hi folks,
I'm a newcomer to linux, old hat with computers. I've been trying to solve this problem now for two days so I've caved and hoping that someone here will help me.
I have a Toshiba a15 sattelite that my dad thought was bricked, but I breathed new life into it and want to install ubuntu. I tried the live cd and loved it. I tried the Install from the liveCD and it went well until trying to partition my ext3 partition. Where it would hang up for hours.
I read online that the alternate CD might avoid the buggy partitioner, so I gave it a go. I'm now working with the alternative CD and now have the "Partitions Formatting" screen stuck at 33%, reading "Creating ext3 file system / for in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) *sda)..."
If I hit Alt + RtArrow a few times, I get to the log, and it's throwing out lines every few seconds. that look like this,
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: status {DRDY ERR }
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: status {ABRT }
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: configured for PIO0
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.: EH complete
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: Exception at Emask
and lots and lots of other things too! Honestly, it all moves so fast, it's hard to type in everything, I wish I had a way just to post it all without having to look over my shoulder and retype it! These are just five lines among many that show up. And after 30min or so, the status bar and screen are still the same....
I tried Standard and Advanced IDE in the BIOS, and I checked the CD, and I tried the LiveCD too, so I think it's not my CD. The HD is old, but I just was able to install WinXP on it two days ago.
Arg, I'm going insane. Someone please tell me what I can do. I can get to the console! And I can provide anymore information that might be needed.
I'm a newcomer to linux, old hat with computers. I've been trying to solve this problem now for two days so I've caved and hoping that someone here will help me.
I have a Toshiba a15 sattelite that my dad thought was bricked, but I breathed new life into it and want to install ubuntu. I tried the live cd and loved it. I tried the Install from the liveCD and it went well until trying to partition my ext3 partition. Where it would hang up for hours.
I read online that the alternate CD might avoid the buggy partitioner, so I gave it a go. I'm now working with the alternative CD and now have the "Partitions Formatting" screen stuck at 33%, reading "Creating ext3 file system / for in partition #1 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) *sda)..."
If I hit Alt + RtArrow a few times, I get to the log, and it's throwing out lines every few seconds. that look like this,
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: status {DRDY ERR }
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: status {ABRT }
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: configured for PIO0
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.: EH complete
DATE : TIME : kernel: [ crazy long #'s ] ata1.100: Exception at Emask
and lots and lots of other things too! Honestly, it all moves so fast, it's hard to type in everything, I wish I had a way just to post it all without having to look over my shoulder and retype it! These are just five lines among many that show up. And after 30min or so, the status bar and screen are still the same....
I tried Standard and Advanced IDE in the BIOS, and I checked the CD, and I tried the LiveCD too, so I think it's not my CD. The HD is old, but I just was able to install WinXP on it two days ago.
Arg, I'm going insane. Someone please tell me what I can do. I can get to the console! And I can provide anymore information that might be needed.