I noticed the same problem on both karmic and lucid. If you PXE boot
the live cd, the eth0 interface works as expected. If you then run the
installer from the live cd and reboot, the network does not come up. If
I change iface eth0 inet manual in /etc/network/interfaces to iface
eth0 inet dhcp
My hardware is MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (nvidia nforce3 ultra chipset).
pressing F6 and adding a space and pci=nomsi doesn't change anything.
I'm more familiar with redhat based distros, so if I'm doing this wrong,
let me know. I haven't downloaded the alternate cd yet. I did remove
the quiet and
same issue here with both x32 and x64 8.04 desktop cd verified cd on
another system. Install option or verify cd option both drop into
busybox shell after a few seconds. This is an older amd x64 system that
works well with many other Linux distros. More info available by
request.
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