seems to be no standard for UEFI bios, Some I need to turn off secure boot others I need to have it on. As of 16.04 I have had no real issues even duel boot with windows. Reminder Installfest/workshop is Sat at Gangplank 10-4pm and great place to work on issues like this. On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > I've literally put Ubuntu or one of it's variants on tens of thousands of > machines over the years, and only a couple of times have I run into a > machine that wouldn't boot and install. It usually came down to a weird > BIOS config where a setting that seemed like it shouldn't effect the boot > process did. I would call that a bug in the BIOS or in other words a > hardware issue and not something that was Ubuntu's fault. > > The only other problem I've had, and it's also very rare is when the > machine had a video card that was incompatible with the opensource driver, > but it would be loaded anyway and either crash the system or be too buggy > to actually see a usable display. In those cases I would whip out the > server install CD and install it without problem. Then it was only a > matter of installing the proprietary driver directly and then everything > would work correctly after that. > > Brian Cluff > > > > On 11/02/2016 06:38 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > >> So yet another chapter of ubuntu-isms begins in my life, trying to >> install on my new desktop. Step 1 defeat, their server install won't even >> boot with a 16.04.1 server disk. Internal cdrom or external usb cdrom, no >> usb thumbdrive. >> >> Then tried a 16.04.1 desktop installer for kubuntu, which got into setup, >> but proceeded to just lock up indefinitely at the drive setup screen, twice. >> >> This is really why I have a hate/love relation with ubuntu, it never >> fails to disappoint. My road to 16.04 has been all upgrades so far, this >> time I'm using 16.04.1 cd's from scratch. >> >> I really don't want to have to make a circle of distro's to end up back >> here again, but ubuntu is always so basically dysfunctional these days with >> the most basic things, it's hard to want to care. >> >> I wonder how much others have seen this. This is with legacy boot in >> bios, no uefi crap, and just a basic d-i based ubuntu server install, >> and/or kubuntu. >> >> -mb >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Todd Cole Ubuntu Arizona Team 4605 S PRIEST DR LOT 3 TEMPE AZ 85282-6507 toddc@azloco.com 602-677-9402