Installation fail

[Bradley129]

Sorry for bothoring the community with another one of Bradley's dumb questions haha but I wanted to test 13.04 do some testing provide some devolopers some tests and logs but for the life of me I can't get it install well I boot from USB use ran to edit add the nomodeset like I always have to do now press enter (to boot it from USB) it shows the Ubuntu slash screen like normal the little.menu dots is loading then all suddenly it freezes the little dots freeze white and there's a little Spinny cirlse thing in the top right corner and it never loads any ideas I would love to get this working?!

[ikt]

Sorry for bothoring the community with another one of Bradley's dumb questions haha

The only dumb question is one not asked

but I wanted to test 13.04 do some testing provide some devolopers some tests and logs but for the life of me I can't get it install well I boot from USB use ran to edit add the nomodeset like I always have to do now press enter (to boot it from USB) it shows the Ubuntu slash screen like normal the little.menu dots is loading then all suddenly it freezes the little dots freeze white and there's a little Spinny cirlse thing in the top right corner and it never loads any ideas I would love to get this working?!

What hardware are you trying to install it on and what iso image did you download?

[grahammechanical]

I sometimes have to put irqpoll into the boot paramenters. Other times I had to tick all the F6 options or some combination of them. Regards.

[ibjsb4]

I have had this problem in the past and found that just doing a "release-upgrade -d" from the previous version to be the easy way out.

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/server...upgrading.html

[ventrical]

Appears as if it is an obsoleted graphics card - no way to tell until we get some lspci info.

[Bradley129]

I have had this problem in the past and found that just doing a "release-upgrade -d" from the previous version to be the easy way out.

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/server...upgrading.html

But if I do that won't I risk my fallback 12.04 install?

[ventrical]

My next questions are:

1. Is it a zsynced iso or a daily raw image that you are using?
2. is it 64bit or 32 bit iso?
3. I assume VGA pallete snoop is off in BIOS?


I have 3 radeon systems and I have seen what you have described. I doubt you can get to terminal from where you are at.

if you are using 64bit iso then try 32bit , or , if you are using 32bit (and your system is 64bit capable) then try 64bit iso.

[Bradley129]

My next questions are:

1. Is it a zsynced iso or a daily raw image that you are using?
2. is it 64bit or 32 bit iso?
3. I assume VGA pallete snoop is off in BIOS?


I have 3 radeon systems and I have seen what you have described. I doubt you can get to terminal from where you are at.

if you are using 64bit iso then try 32bit , or , if you are using 32bit (and your system is 64bit capable) then try 64bit iso.

1. Raw iso from here:http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130301/
2.its a 64bit computer so im using the 64bit version my 12.04 is on amd64.iso so thats what im using for 13.04
3. I do not belive i have that option in bios about the only option have is to enable amd64 virtualazion which i have enabled where would i find this vga option?

one extra detail: my computer didnt come pre installed with windows 8 so no secure boot or anything just good old bios so that isnt causing issues either

[ventrical]

1. Raw iso from here:http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130301/
2.its a 64bit computer so im using the 64bit version my 12.04 is on amd64.iso so thats what im using for 13.04
3. I do not belive i have that option in bios about the only option have is to enable amd64 virtualazion which i have enabled where would i find this vga option?

one extra detail: my computer didnt come pre installed with windows 8 so no secure boot or anything just good old bios so that isnt causing issues either

I am zsyncing that 64bit iso right now to see if I can replicate your symptooms on my AMD opteron dual core.

I'll be back.

i am assuming it is usual bugs. There have been a lot of users who had probs with 64bit.

[ventrical]

But if I do that won't I risk my fallback 12.04 install?

I assume that this is correct. Unless you have a btrfs system format.