[ubuntu] 9.10 failure to boot never mind install

[browolf]

thought I'd finally bite the bullet and try ubuntu 9.10 on my 2nd pc. It's about time I had a perspective on it over personal use.

 

it's kind of disappointing that it wont even boot (to install it) correctly

this is what it says

 

ISOLINUX .....

unknown keyword in configuration file

unknown keyword in configuration file

boot:

could not find kernal image: linux

 

-the iso is definately intact as i can browse it in winrar and see the files.

-although img burn reports the iso as slightly bigger than my blank cdrs, it still burns it, had the same problem with the image burned onto a DVD.

 

/sigh

[t_h]

Just tried it in a VM myself.

 

Seemed to install ok, but on the first reboot it got itself stuck in a loop - I couldn't read the text it was giving me as it was flashing up too fast. Anyway I powered off and it started fine after that.

 

I must admit it does boot fast, and the new software centre looks pretty good.

[tom_newton]

thought I'd finally bite the bullet and try ubuntu 9.10 on my 2nd pc. It's about time I had a perspective on it over personal use.

 

it's kind of disappointing that it wont even boot (to install it) correctly

this is what it says

 

 

 

-the iso is definately intact as i can browse it in winrar and see the files.

-although img burn reports the iso as slightly bigger than my blank cdrs, it still burns it, had the same problem with the image burned onto a DVD.

 

/sigh

 

Does sound like a manky ISO - try another from a different mirror. (Blocklist guy) Nile reinstalled his 904 box this aft, and my desktop is presently dist-upgrading in my absence

[kmount]

Been running it on my work laptop for a couple of weeks now and it's impressively quick, cautious but thinking about moving my gentoo desktop onto it now!

 

I'd try another ISO too mate, it's an odd un.

[llawwehttam]

H'mm I just went on the ubuntu website and ordered a free CD as my Internet is playing up at the moment. Ive been using ubuntu 8.10 since its release and have been a bit skeptic about upgrading. I prefer a clean install so I'm going to wait till the CD comes so I have a good copy.

 

Is it very different to 8.10? I don't really like change.

 

Maybe the release is still a bit buggy? Or it might just not like your machine. Have you tried it in another machine or virtually?

[kmount]

Is it very different to 8.10? I don't really like change.

 

I found 8.10 to be an awful experience, 9.04 much better and 9.10 a dream.

[tech_guy]

I had this problem on an old pc. Your Bios might not be able to read the isolinux.cfg file properly.

[llawwehttam]

I found 8.10 to be an awful experience, 9.04 much better and 9.10 a dream.

 

Thanks for the advice!!!

Ive had a lot of problems with 8.10 especially with plugins like ffmpeg, gstreamer and other media plugins. Ive had to resort to using several video players just to play different formats.

 

All I need to do now is wait till i have enough money for a new hard drive. I'm only using an 80GB one in my ubuntu machine and I barely have 2gb left!!!

 

Would you recommend a clean install or an upgrade as I am unsure what would be best.

If I do a clean install I'll have to go through the trouble of connecting up my current hard drive as a slave and copying all the data i need off it so I can wipe it and use it in another machine, and mounting internal hard drives was a pain in the neck in 8.10. Is it the same in 9.10???

 

I had this problem on an old pc. Your Bios might not be able to read the isolinux.cfg file properly.

 

By the way how old do you mean by this because ive used some very old boards ie pentium 3 boards

with recent versions of linux and not had a problem.

[tech_guy]

It was a five year-old pc - the moment I upgraded the Bios to the latest version from the manu the problem disappeared.

[kmount]

Thanks for the advice!!!

 

Would you recommend a clean install or an upgrade as I am unsure what would be best.

If I do a clean install I'll have to go through the trouble of connecting up my current hard drive as a slave and copying all the data i need off it so I can wipe it and use it in another machine, and mounting internal hard drives was a pain in the neck in 8.10. Is it the same in 9.10???

 

Don't want to derail this thread too much so if you do wanna chat drop me a pm.

 

I'd do a clean install given the problems you've had, plus you can use ext4 out of the box if you want to give that a whirl.

 

Mounting internal disks is a doddle either via command line if the gui decides to not want to work but I've had no problems and my main machine (when it was on gentoo) had 4 hard disks.

 

sudo mkdir /olddisk

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /olddisk

sudo mkdir ~/olddiskcontent

sudo cp -R /olddisk ~/olddiskcontent

[tom_newton]

Dist Upgrade from 9.04 seems to have worked here.

[budgester]

Did you md5 check the ISO before burning ?

[llawwehttam]

I decided to go for it in the end and am at last upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04. The eta is moving from between 2 hours 30 mins to 6 hours. Is this normal and will it finish quicker?

 

The speed is going between 64.3 kb/s and 235Kb/s but not getting any higher. Is It possible to UPGRADE using the Cd and If so if I hit cancel while still in the Getting New Packages Stage will my system be affected?

Edited October 30, 2009 by llawwehttam

[powdarrmonkey]

I decided to go for it in the end and am at last upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04. The eta is moving from between 2 hours 30 mins to 6 hours. Is this normal and will it finish quicker?

 

When there's a new release, a million people all hit the mirrors at once. It's going to be pretty sluggish.

 

The speed is going between 64.3 kb/s and 235Kb/s but not getting any higher. Is It possible to UPGRADE using the Cd

 

Yes, just update your apt sources list to use the CD and do an apt-get dist-upgrade.

 

and If so if I hit cancel while still in the Getting New Packages Stage will my system be affected?

 

No.

[llawwehttam]

Thanks PowdarrMonkey. I didn't really want to be waiting forever so I canceled. I have been getting a few warnings from other people that many packages do not work after an upgrade. Is this true and If so would a clean install be a better idea?

Thanks

[powdarrmonkey]

I don't know, I don't use Ubuntu in production at all, just for auto-builders. Make sure you have a backup and try it

[Gatt]

Upgraded me 2 webserver to 9.10 today - first went in a dream (HP ProLiant DL380 G5) the 2nd has decided that my Acer AL1916 is nwo unknown to it and refuses to give me a resolution greater than 800x600...

typical since this is the one I use most of (mainly for testing before going onto the 1st "Live" Server...

[llawwehttam]

Upgraded me 2 webserver to 9.10 today - first went in a dream (HP ProLiant DL380 G5) the 2nd has decided that my Acer AL1916 is nwo unknown to it and refuses to give me a resolution greater than 800x600...

typical since this is the one I use most of (mainly for testing before going onto the 1st "Live" Server...

 

Thats the exact reason why I am a bit reluctant to upgrade. But hey, I have till may before ubuntu stop support for 8.10 so maybe I'll just wait till the bug fixes are out.

[nile_c]

OP: An MD5Sum would put rest to any concerns about the validity of your ISO.

 

I actually installed my copy of 9.10 from a cheapy USB key using UNetbootin for the prep. That eliminates any problems with the disc burn and was an order of magnitude faster than 1980s optical media :-)

[browolf]

the ones that said, it was the download. got it again and got it on ok. it's odd a corrupted download somehow got bigger.

 

1hr pretty much got it sorted to how i want it, to replicate the functionality on the xp i had on before. mostly the internet and to rdp/play video files off my main pc. sweet!