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| al... |
 Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:43 pm |
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hi guys,
for years, I have always used asus mobo and amd chips with ubuntu and have
never had any problems at all. for some stupid reason, it sounded like a
good idea to upgrade to a quad processor, and go with intel, mainly because
it sounded to be faster the amd counter part. anyway, I have got a gigabyte
p45-ds3l mobo now with four gigi of ram and a q6600 chip. two sata hard
drives and a sata dual layer dvd rom. when i try and install ubuntu hardy
8.4 64 bit I go thru the original screen where you say you want to install,
then nothing happens for a minute or two and then this message pops up "
BusyBox v 1.1.3 (debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)...."
when I try to install the 32 bit version, it just reboots as soon as I
select I want to install ubuntu.
I have tried with the bios I got form the box and an updated bios. the disks
are all recognised in the bios,I have installed and uninstalled them many
times. I thought maybe it was a bad disto disk so I have burnt multiple
copies and they work in another pc.
please help me, I am staranded on my 30 gig windows partition on this
machine ( windows vista installed without any trouble). It has only been
like 12 hours but I am having withdrawl symptoms, I can not stand windows. i
am seriously thinking of going back to the shops and buying another mobo and
amd chip.
I will really appreciate your help |
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| Dan Dangerous... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 11:30 pm |
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al wrote:
Quote: hi guys,
for years, I have always used asus mobo and amd chips with ubuntu and
have never had any problems at all. for some stupid reason, it sounded
like a good idea to upgrade to a quad processor, and go with intel,
mainly because it sounded to be faster the amd counter part. anyway, I
have got a gigabyte p45-ds3l mobo now with four gigi of ram and a q6600
chip. two sata hard drives and a sata dual layer dvd rom. when i try and
install ubuntu hardy 8.4 64 bit I go thru the original screen where you
say you want to install, then nothing happens for a minute or two and
then this message pops up " BusyBox v 1.1.3 (debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12)
Built-in shell (ash)...."
when I try to install the 32 bit version, it just reboots as soon as I
select I want to install ubuntu.
I have tried with the bios I got form the box and an updated bios. the
disks are all recognised in the bios,I have installed and uninstalled
them many times. I thought maybe it was a bad disto disk so I have burnt
multiple copies and they work in another pc.
please help me, I am staranded on my 30 gig windows partition on this
machine ( windows vista installed without any trouble). It has only
been like 12 hours but I am having withdrawl symptoms, I can not stand
windows. i am seriously thinking of going back to the shops and buying
another mobo and amd chip.
I will really appreciate your help
I think the problem is the SATA DVD burner. If you can get an IDE
burner and use it to install, I think that will solve your problem.
I had the same problem trying to install from SATA burner.
Hope this helps
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| J.O. Aho... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:43 am |
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al wrote:
Quote: I have got a gigabyte p45-ds3l mobo
Seems like you aren't the only one to try to install ubuntu on a such machine.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=878204
The problem is that the SATA driver don't seem to support your motherboards
Chipset, it's most likely fixed in a newer kernel, but not on the kernel
shipped on the ubuntu CD you have.
Some boards (like my Asus Crossfire II) do have a bios setting which allows
you to change the SATA more, see if you have a BIOS setting which you can set
AHCI, that way you will be able to use the SATA with older kernels (at least
in my case).
If you can't, I suggest you take a proper Linux distribution that supplys you
a newer kernel on the install media, a good place to look for such information
is www.distrowatch.com.
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| jellybean stonerfish... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:28 am |
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On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:43:22 +1000, al wrote:
Quote: when I try to install the 32 bit version, it just reboots as soon as I
select I want to install ubuntu.
Have you tried adding some boot options, before stating the install.
Maybe play with combinations of "noapic nolapic pci=nacpi vga=normal"
That was the magic needed to get my asus mobo to install with the ubuntu
7.10 cd.
Do you know how to add those before the cd starts the install? I might
be F6, I don't remember.
Let me know if that works to get the install rolling. In that case your
installed version will probably freeze without having it's boot options
modified.
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| Dr. Deb... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:42 pm |
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al wrote:
Quote: hi guys,
for years, I have always used asus mobo and amd chips with ubuntu and have
never had any problems at all. for some stupid reason, it sounded like a
good idea to upgrade to a quad processor, and go with intel, mainly
because it sounded to be faster the amd counter part. anyway, I have got a
gigabyte p45-ds3l mobo now with four gigi of ram and a q6600 chip. two
sata hard drives and a sata dual layer dvd rom. when i try and install
ubuntu hardy
8.4 64 bit I go thru the original screen where you say you want to
install, then nothing happens for a minute or two and then this message
pops up " BusyBox v 1.1.3 (debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell
(ash)...."
when I try to install the 32 bit version, it just reboots as soon as I
select I want to install ubuntu.
I have tried with the bios I got form the box and an updated bios. the
disks are all recognised in the bios,I have installed and uninstalled them
many times. I thought maybe it was a bad disto disk so I have burnt
multiple copies and they work in another pc.
please help me, I am staranded on my 30 gig windows partition on this
machine ( windows vista installed without any trouble). It has only been
like 12 hours but I am having withdrawl symptoms, I can not stand windows.
i am seriously thinking of going back to the shops and buying another mobo
and amd chip.
I will really appreciate your help
OR you could get away from Ubuntu to another distro. I have had nothing but
problmes with Ubuntu based distros (I have a friend who swears by them as
much as I swear at them). I have found that PClinuxOS will boot a Sata
driver with no problems. But for my money either try the latest Mandriva
2009 or PCLinuxOS MiniMe, which I much prefer to the PCLinusOS 2007. The
thing I like about the Mini_Me is that it is only about 284meg, leaving you
to hit the repository for those apps you want and need, rather than getting
a bunch of stuff you neither want or need.
Link below.
http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload/PCLinuxOS-MiniME-Download-11665.html
Deb |
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