On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 06:56, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone:
> > I recall a lot of folks raving about Ubuntu, so I decided that the next
> > time I installed Linux I'd try that. I got a new Abit motherboard to
> > replace the troublesome Soyo MB in one of my towers, and I've got that
> > installed and ready to go. The Ubuntu install starts off well. I
> > configured the network manually because I have static IP's on my
> > network. I then configured the partitions manually because there are
> > two existing partitions I want to reformat and use for root and home.
> > It creates the partitions (type is ext3) and once this is done it has a
> > blue screen and stops responding. I CAN get to the "Busy Box" console
> > by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, and can do a few operations there. A "ps"
> > shows that parted_server, partman and partman.postinst are still running
> > - perhaps they're not completing for some reason. From here I can do a
> > shutdown but I don't know how else to proceed. Any suggestions?
> >
> > thanks!
> > Vaughn
> >
> >
> You might try using systemrescuecd and qtparted to create/format the
> partitions, then reinstall ubuntu and let it use the existing
> partitions. That's just a guess, as I've no real idea what the problem
> actually is.
Thanks for the suggestion, but the pre-existence of formatted partitions
didn't help. I then tried Knoppix, my motto being, "if Knoppix can't
boot it, nobody can." Knoppix couldn't. After considerable thrashing
about and muttering, I discovered that the Abit doesn't seem to like my
SIIG SCSI card. The BIOS options seemed to be just about useless to
deal with that. The SIIG card insists on using IRQ 11, and its config
utility doesn't seem to have a way of changing that. The Abit's BIOS
can "reserve" an IRQ, but doing so prevents the SIIG from using it as
well. Suggestions, anyone?
Thanks in advance,
Vaughn
P.S. The only changes I've made to the default Abit BIOS are:
1) Disable the SATA interface, since I'm not using it, and
2) Move the CD from the 2nd boot device to the 3rd.
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