OOPS - the machine has been rebuilt from under me! anyway, overnight is definitely long enough. we had 2 250g sata drives, and initially - one had a large reiserfs partition so the thought was that there was some sort of scan going on (even though the machine had been brought down cleanly). i removed the large partition and created few small lvm partitions, got the same results.
it definitely came up eventually, though i did notice some pauses while it was up (type a command in - take 10-15 seconds to come back), and this is a pretty decent machine (2.66ghz, core-duo quad core, 4gb ram), nothing running on it (fresh install - going to be a host for vmware). the iso for it was probably downloaded in last 2 weeks, so not sure if it was 8.04.2 - definitely 8.04 though. i believe the guy on site is putting 8.10 on it now... sorry i don't have more info - when 8.10 comes up, i can post that hardware list (at least you can compare hardware), and let you know if it still takes 10-15 minutes to boot. dwf ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Matthew Lye <[email protected]> Reply-To: Bug 322621 <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:42:18 -0000 >Been left overnight with no success, it doesn't load off a CD to install >using Ubuntu 8.04. If i manually image the machine with Ubuntu 8.04 it >boots but drops to initramfs shell instead of loading in. > >Post the output of the same commands so that we can check hardware, and >please confirm that you are using Ubuntu 8.04.2. > >-- >Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS fails on Dell Optiplex 960 >https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322621 >You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >of the bug. > >Status in âlinuxâ source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released >Status in linux in Ubuntu Hardy: In Progress > >Bug description: >The Ubuntu 8.04.2 liveCD will not run on a Dell Optiplex 960. >If a Ubuntu 8.04.2 image is deployed to a Optiplex 960 to get it to boot you >have to load an 8.10 live CD, change the root to the local disk, edit the >sources to use intrepid releases, update the kernel to 2.6.27.9 (and >backports-modules) to get the machine to boot. > >This is expected to be due to the sata3 hdd. > >It would be good to have some sort of fix for this available so you could just >chroot then update to fix the problem. > >This is somewhat a problem with the LTS failing on one of the three standard >corporate machines. I assume there will be similar problems with the >equivalent HP and IBM offerings. > -- Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS fails on Dell Optiplex 960 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/322621 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
