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 <brian@snaptek.com> 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

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