[Bug 874698] Re: Ubuntu Lucid, Oneiric, and Debian 6.0.3 prevent system POST once installed

[Phillip Susi]

gnu-fdisk is not normally used so this was assigned to the wrong place.
This does point to a bug in your system bios, which should not care
about geometry, which has been obsolete nonsense for almost 20 years
now.  I am curious though exactly what you mean and what the difference
is between one that your bios is happy with and one that gets it upset.
Could you provide the exact partition table that causes this failure?


** Package changed: gnu-fdisk (Ubuntu) => parted (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Ubuntu Lucid, Oneiric, and Debian 6.0.3 prevent system POST once
  installed

Status in “parted” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  My trusty main Linux machine, still loaded with Ubuntu 9.04 x86.

  Intel DG33BUC motherboard, latest BIOS rev
  Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500

  So to upgrade, I purchased a new drive:

  Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 0F10383 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
  3.5" Internal Hard Drive

  BIOS saw the drive fine, Ubuntu 10.04.3 x64 boots / installed smoothly

  Eject the CD, reboot, system WILL NOT POST! I see the nVidia BIOS
  screen, then blacks out, loan cursor at the top of the screen, FDD
  light stuck on. The cursor is at the top of the screen in that
  position PRIOR to the Intel splash screen coming on. Thus I know that
  POST has been halted.

  Switch drives back to the 9.04 drive, system boots fine. Switch back,
  same symptoms.

  Same thing with Ubuntu 10.04.3 x86.

  Using another computer with Intel D945GNTL MB and Intel P4 631 CPU
  boots Lucid perfectly fine as installed on the DG33BUC system. So
  using that system, a "disk erase / wipe" utility to begin erasing the
  drive, and THEN the DG33BUC will POST again with the drive installed
  in it.

  What does Ubuntu 10.04.3 both x86 and x64 do that is so nasty so as to
  prevent POST in an Intel DG33BUC based system?

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