I have a similar problem with installing Ubuntu, but the system is not as verbose in my case.
My PC has the following setup: MSI 32b mainboard Silicon Image PCI IDE controller Samsung 500 GB on SATA1 WD 1TB on SATA2 WD 1TB on SATA4 WD 500 GB on IDE1 WD 500 GB on IDE2 Previously I was using Debian without problems. I decided to change to ubuntu to see if it supported my tv-card better. I installed ubuntu 8.10 from cd, using "guided partitioning" to prepare the first SATA (Samsung 500G) disk as system disk. The base install completed, after which I was asked to remove the CD and press enter. The system then went through its normal POST check. After the IDE controller had detected its disks, and the booting of the kernel was supposed to start, the screen goes black, I get a blinking cursor, and nothing else. I've tried reconfiguring the boot sequence in the BIOS for every disk in the system, to no avail. I've booted using the CD to check the disks, and find that the designated system disk is configured and formatted properly. I suppose that somehow the system is unable to locate the bootdisk at startup time. Using Debian I would get something like an "error 15, file not found" error from the boot manager, but even when I install ubuntu with grub it still gives only a blank screen, blinking cursor, so apparently the system cannot even find the boot manager. Might this be related to above bug? If not, could anybody tell me where to find related info? Thanks. -- Breezy [amd64] boot failure after either upgrade or install-grub says /dev/hde1 doens't exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/22917 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
