Damn ubuntu.

[Dazed_75]

Having insstalled 13.10 on maybe 25 systems, maybe 1/2 dual booting and one
using UEFI, I have a hard time imagining what could be causing your
problems.  The only problems I have seen were truly minor.


On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> So per a prior comment about odd efi-booting asus laptop, I'm still
> dealing with getting an os on it.
>
> I installed Ubuntu server 13.10 on it as the desktop installer was
> unstable, and installed fine enough.  Now, my kernels are straight missing
> most of my drivers for things like my network cards and who knows what
> else.  If I install header packages, they are there, but otherwise mia.
>
> I've never seen such a broken kernel install before, did the initrd system
> change on here?  Is there some additional package set it needs now
> installed to see an atheros atl1c driver gig nic?  Even the intel driver
> for the wlan nic is missing, so it's not just an "atheros" thing.  It works
> fine with the server generic kernel's initrd - really flippin befuddling.
>
> Backstory:
>
> Because ubuntu's desktop installer is so broken and incomplete for 13.10,
> I had to resort to using server to get my normal disk setup working using
> raid, crypto, and lvm.  After wasting a week with the desktop installer(s),
> at least I could get this to install clean, aside from it not creating a
> crypttab properly on install that consumed my morning.
>
> This was after spending almost a week trying to make any form of ubuntu
> work on it, getting so pissed and spending another few just to learn Arch,
> realized that all in all I'd rather have a deb-based system, so went back
> again to try server to at least install.  I'm really wondering why...
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -mb
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