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linux-source-2.6.20 package

Installer fails during boot on DS4 P965 Fiesty Beta

Bug #103621 reported by Jfdi
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linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Boot Feisty beta on my Gigabyte DS4 (P965) C2Duo system, SATA DVD & HDD, grub works OK off the CD, the splash comes up, but then drops out into busybox during boot. '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit.

Same with x64 & i386 media.

Casper.log just contains one line - 'unable to find a medium containing a live file system'.

Looks like it can't find the drives. I haven't been able to run any feisty on this box yet.

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Jfdi (dp-jfdi) wrote :

BTW, openSUSE 10.2 installer boots fine! It does load the dreaded JMicron stuff while booting though.

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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Please could you retest this with a _daily_ image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ . This should be fixed now. Thanks in advance!

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Jfdi (dp-jfdi) wrote :

Heh!

Downloaded & booted todays (6/4) daily amd64 live CD & it fails also. BUT this time, there are some devices.

It was looking for /dev/sr0 presumably to mount the CD to install, but there isn't one. Theres a /dev/scd0, sg0 sg1

When I try & mount /dev/scd0 mount says 'Invalid Argument'. So I guess something barfed.

I'll check out if disabling acpi etc does any good...

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Jfdi (dp-jfdi) wrote :

Ho hum.

I've disabled AHCI in the BIOS setup (and set it to IDE - not sure quite what this means because the CD & HDD are SATA drives).

*** AND IT WORKS ! ***

I went through every combination of these settings with the last release, so somethings clearly changed (2.6.20?) in this one.

Many thanks for your help!

Dave

Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
assignee: thotz → nobody
status: Needs Info → Unconfirmed
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Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Now that the 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon release of Ubuntu is out, we were wondering if you can still reproduce this issue. Could you please download and try the new version of Ubuntu from http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download and report back your results. Thanks again and we appreciate your help and feedback.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: New → Incomplete
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wolfger (wolfger) wrote :

5 months with no reply. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in linux-source-2.6.20:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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