Ubuntu

Edgy and Feisty Live CDs won't start

Bug #98755 reported by Maurice
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Ubuntu
Fix Released
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

I just purchased two new HP computers as a present for my son with the intention of building him a dual boot machine with Feisty and some flavour of Windows. I traded the first computer in with a second, hopefully Vista free machine. I could not get either Fiesty or Edgy to boot up as live CD on the first machine. Feisty bombed with a message stating tty was not on, or words to that effect. Edgy got to the live screen OK, but the keyboard and the mouse were totally locked up. The first computer was an HP A1740N Pavillion with Vista Home Premium; the second was an HP M7650N MCE with Windows XP Media Edition. After trying the first, with the total failures of the Live CDs, I thought I would try the second, which was almost the same as my own machine purchased about a year ago. The latter has been run as a dual boot XP MCE/6.10 and is now running Feisty Beta as the sole OS.

On the second computer, Feisty produced the same tty message; Edgy, after selecting Live and Install, just hung up completely.

Question: I don't know much about hardware stuff, but could these problems be being caused by the new SATA Hard Drives installed on the newer machines, or is it just part of a greater MS conspiracy to shut ubuntu out? This bug is critical.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. There was an issue with the Feisty Beta CD and certain SATA controllers. Please try a daily CD image from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ and let us know if that resolves your issue. Thanks in advance.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

From an e-mail direct to me Maurice said:

Hi again Brian,

Problems solved. I was under the apprehension that both XP and Feisty
resided on Disk 1, which would have enabled me to format the bigger Disk
2 as NTFS and hence be available to both XP and Feisty.

I was wrong. XP is on Disk 1 and Feisty is on Disk 2. This would
explain why I couldn't find Disk 2 from within Feisty!! Anyway, my son,
who is the recipient of this machine, says that Feisty has priority for
him, so that's not a problem. The only thing I had to do was to change
the boot order to give Disk 2 the top spot.

I solved the IBM (Lenova) background problem. Somehow it had copied
itself into Feisty's home folder. It's amazing what you can do with a
delete button!

I hope I haven't wasted too much of your time when I know how busy you
guys must be.

Thanks again,

Maurice

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. Thanks again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

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