Ok, so I voted for Clean install with a few problems, but actually, my impatience and lack of faith was the only problem. Those cookies tasted just a little better right about then. Feisty returned from the land of the lost and completed the install. Smiled and said to myself, I'm glad I'm doing this on a clean hard drive, and took solice in the fact that Edgy sits waiting for me, and all I have to do is plug that SATA drive's data cable back in and hit reset.įound the remote for the TV, called my lovely girlfriend and just about the time I was going to power off the box and switch cables I hear drive activity. Went to kitchen, got cookies (chips ahoy) and a glass of 2% milk. No activity on the drives for what felt like way too long. I waited quite some time and convinced myself that the install had hung. Read on.ĭuring the install, the computer hung at 85%. I did a clean install, and in hind-sight, it really was easy. (I have two more of them and they're both currently running Debian Etch with no problems when dual booting alongside XP). I'm going to try a few more things if I get time, but there's something definitely seriously wrong with the release on this very common machine. There seem to be a LOT of reports of problems in this forum that may be related to this issue - most solutions seem ot involve workarounds rather than recognizing the problem.
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It looks to me like the grub MBR boot code may be buggy - this code is rarely installed except on virgin disks with no partition table, since if there's code there, I believe it's left alone. Several attempts to reinstall GRUB from the recovery menu on Alternate startup disk succeed, but do not change the outcome. Changing the AGP aperture and legacy video memory size make no difference at all.ĭisabling the splash screen from CD grub command line shows bootup normally. Note that the splash screen problem also occurs when booting from either of the released CDs, so something seems to be seriously wrong with the boot code's use of the intel video card. HOWEVER, during the entire boot process, the screen is blank until X starts. The fresh install WILL boot to HD from install disk "boot from first hard disk" option (which uses grub install on CD). (At least I can read it back using DD, and it looks like it contains a GRUB error message). Grub code APPEARS to be installed correctly into MBR. The optical drives use a low density cable and Master/slave jumpering. Switching the drive to MASTER makes no difference. The Dell was originally configured to use IDE 1 with a high density SINGLE DRIVE cable and the drive was set for cable select (as is usual on these machines). There's no secondary on the first IDE.Īfter the install, the boot loader fails silently before the Grub menu and dumps things back to the BIOS error message. Two unusual things: There is NO floppy (but it's disabled in the bios) and there are TWO Optical drives (a DVD on the second IDE as master, and a CD burner on the same cable as secondary). (This seems a little odd to me, since it's an IDE disk - is everything remapped to SCSI now?) The install used the entire disk using guided partitioning from the released Desktop disk. Tried a clean, plain vanilla (all defaults) install into a Dell Celeron 2400 using a drive known to be good 40gb WD drivethat had previously been used, but was NOT being booted from, so it may have had a virgin boot sector. The previous content of this message was. Congratulations to the team, (but I hope someone looks into the video problem). Otherwise, things are now working fairly well. The blank screen issue can be worked around by removing the splash screen option from the Grub menu entry. I'm guessing it was a weird plug and play issue and had nothing to do with Feisty.
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The grub boot issue was resolved after I did a full BIOS reset (removing the battery and resetting everything). UPDATE: I guess you could move me into another column of your poll.
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