Please Help Upgrade/Downgrade all_generic_ide=1

[DLoc]

First let me say I'm new to ubuntu. (Currently running 9.10 with cd-rom issues and other issues listed below)
Please let me know what logs etc... you need from me. I've been trying to do my "Research" before acting/ asking questions here. Now for my being an idiot so I need help story.
I have a compaq sr1803wm intel celeron d (maybe EM64T) with ATI intergrated graphics card Radeon Xpress 200 (whcih began my problems) displayed via s-video to TV.
I upgraded to ubuntu 9.10 hoping the graphics card would have drivers. (no)
Then I found out I needed the catalist drver 9.3 (not supported on either ubuntu 9.04 or 9.10 as it is now a legacy driver by ATi)
So I attempted to downgrade xserver so I could use the 9.3 graphics driver (didn't work)
Then I had the bright idea to just downgrade my operating system to ubuntu 8.10 (I got multiple I/O errors beginning with something like Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block which repeated until the live cd would freeze. So I went to google and typed the error in and the response I found was that at the install/boot options F6 you needed to add the line irqpoll generic_ide=1 as well as trying a other time with all_generic_ide=1 (different combos to tell the truth listed in bug reports solved)
Again nothing. So I decided to try the 64 bit version 8.10 (EM64T) which didn't work.
Then I decided to go to 64bit 8.04, (can't remember if I needed to use any of the all_generic_ide=1 but I do not think so) And BINGO it opened the try ubuntu live cd. So I installed it.
But after reboot the system went really slow. I couldn't even open terminal. So I installed ubuntu 9.04 again so I could burn the 32bit version and be happy to get my graphics card working etc... But I couldn't burn the image I thought I was doing something wrong at first and went back over the tutorials. Still burning cd's with nothing on them and finalized. I then upgraded back to 9.10 to make sure it would burn. Still it wouldn't burn the live cd. So I then realized I must have messed something up with the whole all_generic_ide=1 thing. I did lshw and it shows that now I have wlan0 instead of wifi0, Instead of having only pci and SMbus I now had Bus and IDE instead of PCI. Please help me fix this. I want to install ubuntu 8.04 and have the ability to write in my cd writer.

[DLoc]

ideas any one? Before entering all_generic_ide=1 as a install paramater my lshw did not show *ide0, *ide1, *ide2. How do I change this back to PCI? (factory settings on my hard drive and samsung cd-rom are set to cable select and in boot loader show up as both master)

[DLoc]

Ok so I've booted up the live cd of 8.04.3 LTS (I'll try install Using the intel boot parameter)
Here is the result of lshw and lspci and cat /etc/issue

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS \n \l

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lshw
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
ubuntu
description: Computer
width: 32 bits
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 222MiB
*-cpu
product: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 3.20GHz
vendor: Intel Corp.
physical id: 1
bus info: cpu@0
width: 64 bits
capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx x86-64 constant_tsc up pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
*-pci
description: Host bridge
product: Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 100
bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: latency=64
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: RS480 PCI Bridge
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list
*-display UNCLAIMED
description: VGA compatible controller
product: RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: vga_controller bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=64 mingnt=8
*-ide:0
description: IDE interface
product: IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 11
bus info: pci@0000:00:11.0
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sata_sil latency=64 module=sata_sil
*-ide:1
description: IDE interface
product: IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=sata_sil latency=64 module=sata_sil
*-usb:0
description: USB Controller
product: IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 13
bus info: pci@0000:00:13.0
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=64 module=ohci_hcd
*-usb:1
description: USB Controller
product: IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 13.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:13.1
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=64 module=ohci_hcd
*-usb:2
description: USB Controller
product: IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 13.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:13.2
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ehci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=64 module=ehci_hcd
*-serial
description: SMBus
product: IXP SB400 SMBus Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
version: 82
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
configuration: driver=piix4_smbus latency=0 module=i2c_piix4
*-ide:2
description: IDE interface
product: IXP SB400 IDE Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14.1
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.1
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: ide bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ATIIXP_IDE latency=64 module=atiixp
*-ide:0
description: IDE Channel 0
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0
logical name: ide0
clock: 66MHz
*-disk
product: HDS728080PLAT20
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@0.0
logical name: /dev/hda
capacity: 74GiB (80GB)
*-ide:1
description: IDE Channel 1
physical id: 1
bus info: ide@1
logical name: ide1
clock: 66MHz
*-cdrom
product: TSSTcorpCD-R/RW TS-H292C
physical id: 0
bus info: ide@1.0
logical name: /dev/hdc
logical name: /cdrom
capacity: 696MiB (730MB)
capabilities: packet
configuration: mount.fstype=iso9660 mount.options=ro,noatime,relatime state=mounted
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14.2
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.2
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=64 module=snd_hda_intel
*-isa
description: ISA bridge
product: IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: isa bus_master
configuration: latency=0
*-pci:1
description: PCI bridge
product: IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
physical id: 14.4
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.4
version: 80
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master vga_palette
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:15:f2:ea:e4:80
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes
*-communication UNCLAIMED
description: Communication controller
product: HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
vendor: Conexant
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@0000:02:04.0
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=64
*-network:1
description: Wireless interface
product: AR2413 802.11bg NIC
vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
physical id: 5
bus info: pci@0000:02:05.0
logical name: wifi0
version: 01
serial: 00:11:50:d4:ca:98
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath_pci latency=168 maxlatency=28 mingnt=10 module=ath_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
*-firewire
description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
product: FW323
vendor: Agere Systems
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:02:06.0
version: 61
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: ohci bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=64 maxlatency=24 mingnt=12 module=ohci1394
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:11.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200]
02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:04.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
02:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

[DLoc]

intel boot parametr did not help. still froze after logging in

[DLoc]

ok so I've finally found out the generic.all_generic_ide=1 changed my bios setup and I need to re-enable my native hd settings. I'm not sure exactly where it is in my pheonix bios. Any help is appriceated

[lynnevan]

Every bios I've ever seen has an option to reset defaults, usu near the end of the bios menu, or as part of the "save" options - "save settings and exit", "exit without saving", "set default options", etc. Or maybe even at the bottom of all screens where it explains how to do thing, as in (maybe), F7 = default settings.

[DLoc]

So I tried the default settings in my bios. It's still showing a simular lshw but I'll try writing a cd before saying I can't get it to work.

[DLoc]

Ok, so I reinstalled grub and I think it's fixed now. (again need to try and burn a cd) but the ath0 eth0 and lo are back when I do ifconfig.

[kansasnoob]

If this is your total memory I don't think you'll get Ubuntu running at all well on that:

*-memory
description: System memory
physical id: 0
size: 222MiB

Recommended minimum requirements

Ubuntu should run reasonably well on a computer with the following minimum hardware specification. However, features such as visual effects may not run smoothly.

* 700 MHz x86 processor
* 384 MB of system memory (RAM)
* 8 GB of disk space
* Graphics card capable of 1024x768 resolution
*

Sound card
*

A network or Internet connection