Really wierd issue, I am installing Ubuntu on a Pentium III, I got to the desktop but had to reboot because I forgots teh mouse, lame.
But anyways whats wierd is that before it loaded Ubuntu of the cd it gave me this error:
202.544000 Buffer I/O error on defice fd0, logical block 0
And some other number but same text error.
Then after that it gave me this wierd colourful pink/grey/brown screen until I hit excape then it loaded the Ubuntu desktop. Wierd.
Also before it has the pink screen of doom(TM) it has this black screen with blinky cursor until it loads the "etc etc etc... [OK]" kernal stuff.
Wierd. Fedora never gave these troubles at school.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Surely there are linux forums out there where this question would be more likely to get you what you're looking for.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
That involves registration, getting to know new people, giving out personal information such as location and email and edging into a entirely new community etc all steps that I don't think I am ready for yet. I know our relationship has been strained but I think we can work through it without going that far.
Posted by NotMe (Member # 10470) on :
The number is timing info printed by the kernel on all printk messages. They can be turned off in the kernel configuration.
I assume that you are booting directly from the CD and not actually using your floppy drive, because most modern distros don't support booting from a floppy. The kernel is probably probing the floppy drive to check to see if it is there. I would guess that it either isn't, or it may be mis-configured in the BIOS settings. However, unless you actually want to use the floppy drive, you can probably ignore this message.
The garbled screen most likely shows up because the X server switches video modes before putting anything meaningful in the framebuffer. I highly doubt that your pressing the escape key has anything to do with the screen clearing and showing the desktop; that should happen without intervention within a few seconds.
This doesn't happen on Fedora because, as I recall, Fedora uses a graphical boot program that hides the kernel console output and initializes the graphics card long before it is ready for you to log in. Either way is fine, and the brief garbled screen at boot-up is not a symptom of any serious problem.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
formatting of the hard disk froze so i restarted the computer now it thinks linux is installed but will not let me log in with my user account, and the default account logs in but i get an error message about how i was only logged in for 10 seconds then the system reloads Ubuntu so i cant reformat.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
hurray for xp cds with an inbuilt formating tool.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
[Errno 5] Input/output error
Greaaaaat.
Okay the cd I am certain is fine, and the hd is new, could the problem be the cd-rom drive?
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Is there any part of this computer that you're sure actually WORKS?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I've finally managed to install Ubuntu but now no program I try to start up works, when I was installing it at 83 or 85% it gave back the I/O error but managed to still complete the install rather then cancel it.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Yay I found a Linux Irc channel!!
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I had similar inconsistent issues with a recent Ubuntu install, Blayne, and it turned out that I needed to burn my Ubuntu disc image at a slower speed to ensure an error-free copy. Have you checked the integrity of your CD with the CD check option given when you first boot off the disc?
Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :
Ubuntu does a disk check on itself automatically, doesn't it? or was that OpenSUse I was messing with....? I don't quite remember. I installed about 6 different distros within a 2 day period, so they're all kinda mashed together.
either way, Once I finally build a tower I'm for sure doing a(n)(K)Ubuntu partition.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
always exactly 1 file wrong. burner slower didnt help with the cd's, trying dvds now as im out of clean cd's.
Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :
*cringe* you're putting Ubuntu on a DVD? You might as well just do Debian.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
its the only way I can install it as I am out of cd's.
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