CHR1S Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 Right, seems im falling at the first hurdle. After fixing my no common CD-Rom driver probs etc it now gets to the scanning disks part of the install and just stops at 36% every time. Im trying with a different HDD to see if that fixes it, anyone else got any tips? Thanks
CHR1S Posted March 11, 2008 Author Posted March 11, 2008 Even with a different disk it still hangs at 36%
lasercat Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 Perhaps you have a faulty CD, try burning it at a slow speed and checking the MD5 Hash?
dhicks Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 After fixing my no common CD-Rom driver probs etc it now gets to the scanning disks part of the install and just stops at 36% every time. Odd sounding problem. Can you try with a different CDROM drive? Could it be the cable/connection between your CDROM drive and the motherboard (are the harddrive and CDROM on the same ATA cable)? -- David Hicks
Geoff Posted March 11, 2008 Posted March 11, 2008 I suspect acpi or a dma issue. Have you looked in the console for errors while the ubuntu setup is booting (Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F12 are the various consoles).
CHR1S Posted March 12, 2008 Author Posted March 12, 2008 I seem to be getting alot of hda: Lost Interrupt errors every 30 seconds.
Geoff Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 Sounds like an ACPI problem. Check for bios updates. Failing that, use the following boot options: acpi=off ide=nodma noapic This will have a considerable performance hit though. 1
CHR1S Posted March 12, 2008 Author Posted March 12, 2008 Sounds like an ACPI problem. Check for bios updates. Failing that, use the following boot options: acpi=off ide=nodma noapic This will have a considerable performance hit though. Thanks Geoff, where exactly do I use the said boot option?
Geoff Posted March 12, 2008 Posted March 12, 2008 They are boot options, so you need to pass them to the kernel at boot time. You do this at the bootloader prompt.
CHR1S Posted March 12, 2008 Author Posted March 12, 2008 Even with the above code it still constantly gives the hda - lost interrupt error. Is there a distro that will just install like windows and does what I need? Im starting to run out of time with this
CHR1S Posted March 13, 2008 Author Posted March 13, 2008 XP/Server install and run with no problems tho?
Geoff Posted March 13, 2008 Posted March 13, 2008 Quite a regular occurrence I'm afraid. Manufacturers test their products against Windows. They do not test them against Linux. Windows is slightly lax in some areas where it comes to hardware standards. Linux isn't. Can you give me a make/model number?
CHR1S Posted March 14, 2008 Author Posted March 14, 2008 its an IDE card yes, could it be possible that its not 100% supported?
CHR1S Posted March 14, 2008 Author Posted March 14, 2008 actually on closer inspection its a combo daughter board with lan/gfx/ide and the only reference numbers on it are Compaq J1085 or WS15MP4749. Aida32 says it has a - Compaq-Integrated CMD PCI-0649 Ultra-ATA/100 Dual Channel IDE Controller Hope thats of some use to you? Thanks again Chris
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