Public bug reported:
When installing Intrepid on a friend's Acer Aspire 5100 over the
weekend, I ran into major problems using the install option from the
boot menu. When the installation had completed (apparently
successfully) and booted up, X wouldn't accept any input (though the
console would). In an attempt to diagnose this problem, I removed the
gdm package.
Unfortunately, the installation then wouldn't accept the CD as a source
of the packages, so I had to add some online sources in order to
reinstall it. At this point, I discovered that none of the network
interfaces seemed to be configured in a usable manner (i.e. ifconfig
wasn't able to do any setup). So, I went to reinstall.
Unsurprisingly, by this point, my friend was becoming rather impatient,
so we booted into the LiveCD so he could actually use his computer as
something more than an inefficient space heater. When he'd finished
checking Facebook, we went through the install from the live CD
environment. When we booted into the new installation it worked
perfectly, and he's now the happy user of a GNU/Linux laptop (hurrah!).
To summarise:
* Installed using boot menu option
* X wouldn't accept input, network interfaces weren't configured
* Reinstalled using live CD desktop shortcut.
* ...
* Profit.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Install from boot menu produces a different result to installation from live CD
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292817
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