<p dir="ltr">So I have learned something interesting. My system has a Marvell based chips etc providing some extra sata3 ports. If I have a SATA device plugged into that controller I gets some pretty interesting errors on boot preventing the installer from even loading. In this case my blue ray drive was connected so I simply unplugged that. This was affecting me on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This might be related to your root issue. </p>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2016 9:10 PM, "Stephen Partington" <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">So I am now running Ubuntu 16.10 on my main machine with LVM-cache UEFI and my shiny new GTX 1070 with KDE Plasma 5.7.5</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">So far It is running very well. after i broke my LVM about 4 times trying to remember how ti set up LVM cache...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
    <p>I just had to kill that on my home machine.  It was making me
      wait 5 minutes even though I actually already had a connection...
      lame.</p><span class="m_5561462196125305301HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
    <p>Brian Cluff<br>
    </p></font></span><div><div class="m_5561462196125305301h5">
    <div class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466moz-cite-prefix">On 11/08/2016 09:54 AM, Stephen
      Partington wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">
        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I do much the same here. But if you are
          installing something that does not have an always connected
          network you might want to adjust the wait timeout for
          networking sooner than later. 5m boot delays are weird and
          annoying.</div>
      </div>
      <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Brian
          Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
            <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
              <p>In my experience the server install is pretty much just
                a minimal install that asks you at the end if you want
                to install certain typical server software.  I just
                normally just pick SSH server and then add whatever I
                want after the first boot.  I've always had less
                problems installing the server over rather than the
                desktop install because of the odd graphics card
                problems that pop up from time to time (but hardly ever
                these days) since the server install uses a text based
                installer.  The server install will allow you easily
                install a basic system and then install the proprietary
                graphics drivers afterwards skipping having to have them
                to install in the first place.</p>
              <p>The only real gotcha is that it takes longer to install
                since much of your software (aka your entire desktop
                environment) will have to be downloaded over the
                Internet rather than coming off of nice fast flash
                drives or DVDs.  You could, if you are in a hurry,
                install via the server install disk and then use the
                packages on the desktop install to feed your desktop
                install, but in the long run it probably won't save you
                any time since you would still want to update everything
                over the Internet and that would take just about as
                long.  Then again, if you have the server installed, you
                can actually be doing stuff to customize your install at
                the same time that it's installing/updating so it's
                probably all in all a speed win.<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
                  </font></span></p>
              <span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
                  <p>Brian Cluff<br>
                  </p>
                </font></span>
              <div>
                <div class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466h5"> On 11/08/2016 12:49 AM, trent shipley
                  wrote:<br>
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <div dir="ltr">What are some of the gotchas he can
                      expect in installing: server -> delta desktop
                      repository -> delta desktop gui -> no more
                      than two days tweaking system? OR:
                      <div>desktop install -> delta server ->
                        tweak?</div>
                      <div><br>
                      </div>
                      <div>I'd expect using the server distro as the
                        base to work better with a server enabled
                        workstation, but that's just a layperson's
                        hunch.</div>
                    </div>
                    <br>
                    <div class="gmail_quote">
                      <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 3:35 PM
                        Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>>
                        wrote:<br>
                      </div>
                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                        <div class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">Plus
                          one for the server install DVD. If you are
                          going to do anything out of the norm, always
                          reach for the server install. Then just apt
                          install kubuntu-desktop when everything is
                          done installing.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          Kde neon is pretty good right now and about
                          the only way to get an up to date kde
                          experience right now, but it will still use
                          the Ubuntu installer. It would probably be
                          best for you to use the server install cd,
                          then add the neon repositories, and then
                          install the the neon-desktop</div>
                        <div class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          Brian Cluff<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                        </div>
                        <div class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          <div class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">On November
                            7, 2016 1:17:07 PM MST, Stephen Partington
                            <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>>
                            wrote:</div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                          <div class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                            <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
                              <div dir="ltr" class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                <div class="gmail_default m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Wow. you worked much
                                  harder with the desktop install media
                                  than i would have. I usually 86 the
                                  desktop install media and just use the
                                  server install media to get the
                                  LVM/Raid settings i want to use. i
                                  just have to remember to disable the
                                  network wait on boot.</div>
                                <div class="gmail_default m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                </div>
                                <div class="gmail_default m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I am about to try
                                  something like this again for a while
                                  as Windows 10 is irking me again more
                                  and more.</div>
                              </div>
                              <div class="gmail_extra m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                <div class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">On
                                  Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Michael
                                  Butash <span dir="ltr" class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:mike@butash.net" class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" target="_blank">mike@butash.net</a>></span>
                                  wrote:<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                  <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sorry for
                                    the fire and forget, had to rebuild
                                    a data center for a customer over
                                    the weekend - I was just really
                                    hoping to have the darn box up
                                    before I left to work on it remote,
                                    such a simple feat normally, but I
                                    had no time for anyways.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    Rest inline...<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      On 11/03/2016 03:54 AM, Steve Litt
                                      wrote:<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    </span>
                                    <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 18:38:24
                                        -0700<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:mike@butash.net" class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" target="_blank">mike@butash.net</a>>
                                        wrote:<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </span><span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> This
                                          is really why I have a
                                          hate/love relation with
                                          ubuntu, it never<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          fails to disappoint.  My road
                                          to 16.04 has been all upgrades
                                          so far,<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          this time I'm using 16.04.1
                                          cd's from scratch.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        </blockquote>
                                        Curious: What do you love about
                                        it? You seem like the kind of
                                        person<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        who could work with any distro.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </span></blockquote>
                                    Short answer, it usually works where
                                    others do not with my graphics, a
                                    6-head amd video card which until
                                    recently, I used all ports on.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    Long story, probably tldr (you
                                    asked!), definitely love/hate...<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    After my last straw with windoze and
                                    making the decision to force myself
                                    to use linux to both learn and
                                    abandon m$ shitty ecosystem circa
                                    2006, I tried a bit of everything
                                    disto-wise.  I always loathed redhat
                                    and rpm hell (no, yum didn't
                                    entirely fix this, and much later),
                                    I came from
                                    slackware/open|freebsd/solaris
                                    background having no desire to go
                                    back, and oddly landed on Mandrake
                                    for a bit.  Until I started hacking
                                    on it, and things came unglued.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    I decided to try Ubuntu after
                                    reading about debian roots I've
                                    heard praised (tried for 2 seconds,
                                    got annoyed, don't remember now
                                    why), I think 6.04 at the time, and
                                    oddly it "just worked".<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    I didn't begin to have any real
                                    issues until 10.10 until the era of
                                    unity hell began, and they started
                                    trying to make Ubuntu install more
                                    idiot-proof for, well idiots.  Sadly
                                    it removed all the good features
                                    like complex raid, crypto, and lvm
                                    setup, making it about as stupid as
                                    possible, but there was always the
                                    alt installer and just simply not
                                    using unity, if I could just get the
                                    damn os on a system.  Thanks
                                    Canonical.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    They then pissed on that, fiddling
                                    with (breaking) the alt installer
                                    removing fdisk (it's what I used for
                                    my raid+crypto+lvm setup), and
                                    ultimately doing away with the alt
                                    installer all together as insult to
                                    injury.  Again I worked around them
                                    in other ways, building my fs
                                    manually with an arch cd first
                                    learning how to build it all
                                    manually from busybox again, and
                                    trick the netboot installer into
                                    working over it.  Thanks again
                                    Canonoical.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    Around 2014, I got really annoyed
                                    after dist-upgrade blew up my system
                                    that I decide to sojourn a bit and
                                    explore distros again with a new
                                    laptop I'd gotten.  I couldn't even
                                    get fedora's vaunted installer to
                                    reproduce my raid+crypt+lvm setup,
                                    and despised the notion of going
                                    back to it anyways, but at the
                                    request of a friend that for some
                                    reason likes it, tried.  Even tried
                                    Red Hat's official installer, more
                                    broken than fedora, scratch
                                    either/or.  Tried Arch too, got to a
                                    desktop, and found hell with the AMD
                                    drivers and graphics capabilities in
                                    general.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    I settled on Mint Debian edition
                                    with Mate, as Cinnamon was all sorts
                                    of broken with compositing on even
                                    the most basic intel gpu, which
                                    seemed like instant fail.  Mate was
                                    great, and used that for a bit until
                                    with some new ssd's I'd begun to
                                    rebuild my desktop with mint de
                                    mate, and found ATI graphic hell in
                                    my desktop.  AMD only cares about
                                    fedora/ubuntu as a linux entity,
                                    knew it would likely work there, and
                                    again hacked ubuntu back onto my
                                    system.  It's the same install I'm
                                    using today, and eventually moved my
                                    laptop back to ubuntu.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    What I really can't fathom is how
                                    Canonical can keep breaking their
                                    installers in such new and creative
                                    ways each time, and only I seem to
                                    notice, but then again, I expect
                                    linux features most people don't
                                    know even exist or care about like
                                    raid, crypto, or volume management.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    If BTRFS or ZFS supported better
                                    encryption, I'd love to use one
                                    native fs to do all the
                                    raid/crypto/lvm in it.  I think as
                                    of this year, either/both might, so
                                    worth exploring, but I bet ubuntu's
                                    installers will still suck in
                                    dealing with them.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    Yes, AMD is a root evil for linux
                                    graphics and at times the kernels,
                                    but nvidia to this day still has not
                                    put out a 6-head video card like AMD
                                    that I actually use all 6 ports of. 
                                    Now I have 3x montiors (well, tv's),
                                    so this new one has a nice new 1070
                                    card in it.  Which thanks to their
                                    crappy business practices too of not
                                    releasing firmware immediately (that
                                    amd would decompile), I know nouveau
                                    has issues with, and the binary
                                    drive is necessary.  I'm handy with
                                    cli here, not too worried, more that
                                    their drivers suck too these days.<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
                                        <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I
                                          really don't want to have to
                                          make a circle of distro's to
                                          end up<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          back here again, but ubuntu is
                                          always so basically
                                          dysfunctional<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          these days with the most basic
                                          things, it's hard to want to
                                          care.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          I wonder how much others have
                                          seen this.  This is with
                                          legacy boot in<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          bios, no uefi crap, and just a
                                          basic d-i based ubuntu server
                                          install,<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                          and/or kubuntu.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        </blockquote>
                                        I used Ubuntu for several years
                                        because it "just works." The
                                        trouble<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        was, as I got more
                                        sophisticated, Ubuntu's
                                        seatbelts and airbags and<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        danger sensing devices and
                                        training wheels and all that
                                        other stuff so<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        necessary to the newbie badly
                                        got in my way.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </span> I agree, it feels almost
                                    childish to still use Ubuntu at this
                                    stage, but nothing else has worked
                                    suitably, and I'm somewhat tired of
                                    trying+disappointment when history
                                    has proven most others to be
                                    inadequate or worse.<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> So I
                                        ditched Ubuntu for Debian, and
                                        that was great, but then Debian<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        went systemd so I switched to
                                        Void Linux, and after a rocky 5
                                        weeks of<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        Void newbie-ism, Void has turned
                                        out to be the most useful,
                                        maleable<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        and stable distro I've ever
                                        used. I've used Void for over a
                                        year now.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </span> That's why I tried Mint
                                    Debian Edition - figured deb it
                                    might suck less and just wanted a
                                    modern ui, but found that their
                                    driver support for AMD, or rather a
                                    support for modern versions thereof
                                    for graphics were fairly lacking,
                                    and no one from a major org cares
                                    enough to fix it.  I simply could
                                    not get their kernel to take the amd
                                    driver, which was a non-starter. 
                                    It's actually what drove me finally
                                    back to Ubuntu natively just for a
                                    working video solution, and at times
                                    keeps me bound.<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> I think
                                        you've probably outgrown Ubuntu.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </span> See above.  It tends to work
                                    great as long as I don't have to 1)
                                    install it via "normal" means or 2)
                                    upgrade it, both often suck these
                                    days.  Both have simply continued to
                                    get worse and worse, and I only
                                    encounter them every few years out
                                    of necessity of they are also both
                                    my primary means of working as my
                                    own business.  Once I hit 14.04
                                    stable, I upgraded only upon
                                    absolute necessity core functions
                                    like kernel or desktop libs, and
                                    only essential apps that require
                                    them (browsers really), but
                                    otherwise didn't upgrade core until
                                    16.04 when it released.  That's been
                                    a current longer evolutionary story
                                    I'll get to eventually.<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> BUT, as
                                        far as your current no-booting
                                        installer problem, I wonder if<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        your media are bad. Just for
                                        fun, boot System Rescue CD and
                                        have a look<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        around the system to verify no
                                        disk or RAM problems, and that
                                        the<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        processor is what you think it
                                        is. If you can't boot System
                                        Rescue CD<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        either, that points an accusing
                                        finger at your DVD drive.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </span> This is something I'd seen
                                    before actually, I'd mentioned
                                    another time about arch and
                                    disk-label usage.  I don't think
                                    it's media, but who knows.  My 10
                                    year old spindle of dvd-r's might be
                                    breaking down by now, but first time
                                    I've seen this with a anything, why
                                    I tried both the built-in, and a
                                    usb, of which I've used hundreds of
                                    times to boot things, almost always
                                    said linux boxes over the past 10
                                    years, another not long ago.<span class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg"><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Also,
                                        try burning your disks with
                                        cdrecord (or wodim) instead of a
                                        gui.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        I use a command something like
                                        this:<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0
                                        padsize=63s driveropts=burnfree
                                        \<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        -pad -dao -v -eject myimage.iso<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        The padsize=63s and -pad help
                                        with the Linux readahead bug.
                                        Burnfree<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        means you don't unknowingly make
                                        coasters or bad discs if your
                                        computer<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        can't deliver the data fast
                                        enough.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        If you perform the burn like I
                                        mentioned above, you *should* be
                                        able to<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        md5 check the disc to the same
                                        md5sum as the iso file by
                                        following<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        directions here:<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                        <a href="http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm" rel="noreferrer" class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg" target="_blank">http://www.troubleshooters.com<wbr>/linux/coasterless.htm</a><br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                      </blockquote>
                                    </span> Interesting - I've not had
                                    to adjust a cd like that using k3b
                                    on linux ever or nero in win since
                                    doing so for pirated drm games. Only
                                    time seeing something like that is
                                    using unetbootin to make the usb
                                    where it doesn't know the iso
                                    expects a certain disk label to
                                    exist.  This seemed more a sloppy
                                    iso build in the few hours I had
                                    with the system and ample
                                    frustration to write that.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    Thank you for that tidbit, I'll try
                                    it after I fiddle with the bios more
                                    on this.  I'm going to try a kde
                                    neon build (really what I'm
                                    interested in more here), I just
                                    didn't have the time as it showed up
                                    5 hours before I had to pack, sleep,
                                    and hop on a plane (sad, I know). 
                                    It's a t7910 precision dell, more a
                                    server board than desktop, so I'd
                                    really expect better behaviour here
                                    on either pc or ubuntu.<br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    <br class="m_5561462196125305301m_2453982024417697466m_2792327019177089564gmail_msg">
                                    I'll update when I get to it tonight
                                    hopefully.
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                                          November 2016 featured book:
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                                  mouse trap, placed on top of your
                                  alarm clock, will prevent you from
                                  rolling over and going back to sleep
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