[Bug 875368] Re: Repeated crashes during clean install of XUbuntu 11.10

[Albin T]

I ran the live cd from an external harddrive using the Grub2 feature of
booting directly from an iso using a custom grug.cfg on the external
hdd. I.e. I installed grub2 on the external hdd bootsector, customised
/boot/grub/grub.cfg and added the iso to the external hdd.

There was no initial screen where I could check for defects but I did compare the md5 of the iso file (on the external hdd) to the ones at:
http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/11.10/release/MD5SUMS

It may be a hardware issue though. I finally managed to install after
setting the bios to "safe-defaults" and using a different partition on
the hdd. If it helps, I can try to recreate the problem again to
determine if it was the bios settings or the hdd.

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Title:
  Repeated crashes during clean install of XUbuntu 11.10

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I've been trying to create a clean install of Xubuntu 11.10 using the
  desktop i386 installer. The installer has crashed every time but not
  always in the same place. The machine completely froze a couple of
  times while "configuring hardware" but the last time it crashed but
  didn't freeze so I could send this bugreport. The last time I didn't
  check "download updates" or "install third party" check boxes.

  I am running xubuntu 10.10  and 11.04 on the same machine. 10.10 runs
  fine but 11.04 freezes randomly. Memtest does not report any problems.
  I have successfully installed 11.10 on a different machine using the
  same iso file on the same external hdd.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CasperVersion: 1.287
  Date: Sun Oct 16 00:41:18 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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