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

[Michael Lueck]

@Phillip #9

Thank you for following up on this case.

What ever partitioner the Ubuntu LiveCD GUI installer uses to partition
the disk made a partition table which was incompatible with the latest
BIOS available from Intel for the motherboard in this system. Placing
the hard disk drive into a system with older Intel motherboard (also
with latest available BIOS for that motherboard) would POST and boot
properly.

I have since migrated this troublesome system to Xubuntu 12.04, and that
LiveCD installed BEAUTIFULLY on a brand new blank hard disk drive.

So unless a different partitioner is used between the Ubuntu and Xubuntu
LiveCD's, then this problem is resolved by the code in 12.04.

In the case Ubuntu and Xubuntu use a different partitioner, then my
success with Xubuntu 12.04 is irrelevant.

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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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