Originally tried to install BlenderBuntu 11.10 onto a USB flash drive (drive alpha); BIOS doesn't detect it as bootable (skips to default boot from HD to windows). Thought it was a problem with the drive, tried installing on 2nd (drive beta - overwriting "security software" included with drive); still no detection. Burned a boot installation CD and proceeded to partition both drives wih 6 GB FAT32 6GB ext4 rest swap (16GB drive alpha), install to... ext4 I'm guessing (no idea if it succeeded); reboot on install completion and no boot. Retried process with other USB flash drive and same result.
Gave Ubuntu 12.04 a shot. In Windows, downloaded desktop ISO and utility linked from Ubuntu website that allowed me to write the image straight to the USB flash drive (drive alpha - partitioning / formatting from previous attempt intact). On restart, no boot. Back in windows, performed the same procedure on drive beta. Reboot... instead of getting the installation screen that a CDROM bootable installation setup would give me, it leaves me on the same black screen you see when the BIOS finishes listing hard drive S.M.A.R.T. info and BIOS IRQ assignments with a message saying something along the line of "kernel not found" or path to or something, the next line a colon followed by I guess me having to enter the path to said kernel. (No previous knowledge of what a kernel file looked like, so I rebooted). (omitting various live test runs of U12.04LTS desktop from cd boots) (omitting attempt to CD-boot, install 12.04 to drive alpha - forgot the outcome) CD booting the Ubuntu 12.04 installer (onto drive beta), I tell it to Upgrade existing 11.10 install to 12.04. On the screen after that where it requires me to hit next, a popup appears and says partition /cdrom must be unmounted before it can continue... I was like, "Huh?" I thought I was installing from said CD mount... I click next to disregard, and the system seemed to hang. Clicking previous, next, hitting the x on the popup - no sound or activity from any drives or CD. Soft rebooted. 2nd attempt at above install on (beta). Same steps, though this time, my CD wasn't making any noise (on Ubuntu, it always maxes out the drive rpm on any reads, it's very noticeable). Chose Upgrade existing 11.10 to 12.04. The next screen, instead of the previous "unmount /cdrom" prompt, tells me I need to make my partition larger than 2.5 GB to install. Strange, though, as the next screen which is the partition manager setup, tells me my USB drive is 6GB FAT32 1GB ext4 1GB something else, remainder swap (I don't know at what point the middle ext4 turned into two drives). Also strange is that, on all my previous install attempts and live sessions, my two FAT32 drives connected through my ancient Promise ATA 100 raid (not configured for any striping) aren't showing up in the manager this time. At any rate, deleted the 1/1/rest partitions (left 6GB FAT32 unchanged) and went something with 6/6/rest FAT32/ext4/swap. Tried hitting next, gave me "can't install without a file system yet being defined" message (which I've seen trying from trying BlenderBuntu manual partitioning - it's always stopped me). Cleared the message; this time, there's a distinct delay (presumably from setup updating info from the drives - this never happened when I tried all my previous manual partitioning with the "file system yet defined" error) with the cursor in busy mode, before it returns to normal. I click next, still on the partition manager screen - instead of getting that same error again - it lets me through... or not, I don't remember. Next thing was "Ubuntu has met with an error and cannot continue, please send this to the bugtracker." Maybe this (part of the) bug's been fixed by now, who knows. All I know is, my BIOS doesn't like USB flash drives. Drive alpha: PNY 16GB USB 2.0 Drive beta: Sandisk Cruzer 16GB USB 2.0 Mobo: Gigabyte P35-3SDL rev?? - no BIOSes available that address USB flash/zip drive boot problems -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/792652 Title: ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command(): I/O operation on closed file To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/792652/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
