On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:12:03 -0000 Charlie Kravetz <[email protected]> wrote:
> We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we > haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the > requested information? Thanks! I found the cause of this problem, which is a bug in Ubuntu only to the extent that the problem does not occur in the installation of WIndows or FreeBSD on my current hardware. The original hardware was an older Chaintech motherboard with Athlon XP and there was an Artec/Ultima DVD/CD combo drive. Ubuntu 10 ran perfectly on this hardware. Following a failure, a Gigabyte GA-880 motherboard and Athlon II X2 was fitted. Ubuntu 10 did not install correctly on this setup (though as mentioned other OS did). More accurately, I believe now that it did in fact install correctly, but at boot time the wrong information was being supplied as to the UUID of the boot disc. Later, I recalled that the Artec CD drive had a compatibility problem when originally fitted in a RISC OS machine. I therefore removed the Artec drive and fitted a new Samsung. The problem has vanished. I conclude that there was a minor incompatibility between the Artec drive and the IDE system on the new motherboard, to which Ubuntu was uniquely vulnerable. Having changed the drive I regret it is no longer possible to reproduce the problem but I thank you for your concern. best wishes Martin -- Martin R Devon MSc Consulting Engineer, Box, Wiltshire, UK RISC OS in the timber-frame housing industry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689564 Title: install appears to proceed OK but is incomplete -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
