[Bug 1232924] Re: Saucy Beta2 installer fails on HP ML115

[Quinn Balazs]

I was able to test this out, after making a few minor adjustments to my
setup in order to mirror the machine that you were having issues with,
and I ran into the same issues with both live USB and live CD
installation attempts. I verified the disks, and was able to
successfully install Saucy with them on a myriad of other machines
(Basically what I spent most of today doing). The latest daily (Sep
30th) AMD64 build boots fine, which adds to the strangeness of this.
Tonight, when I have some time to dissect and hack with the images, I'll
try to sort out what's causing the hang in the installer. Meanwhile, I'm
split between calling this a ubiquity issue and possibly a syslinux
issue. I'll know better on that if I can get the installer working.

Quinn Balazs

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Title:
  Saucy Beta2 installer fails on HP ML115

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Machine HP ML 115 Gen 5
  AMD Opteron 1352 Quad core 2.1 GHz
  4GB RAM
  Disks: 1 x 160GB Sata as /boot /tmp swap /home and /
  3x 250GB Sata in mdraid Raid5 array as /data
  Current OS: Ubuntu 12.10

  1. Beta2 Cd only intermittently boots to installer (language selection)
  It seems that if I press Caps Lock a few times during the boot sequence it will manage to get to the installer screen)

  2. Running CD integrity check never completes (>1 hour)
  3. Selecting Install or Test results in the following screen:

       BusyBox v1.20.2 (Ubuntu 1:120.0-8.1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
       Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

       (initramfs)

  
  N.B. Keyboard is non functional at this point
  (I have tried with acpi=off apicoff nodmraid)

  
  I have tried 3 different 13.10 beta2 ISOs:

  Ubuntu beta 2 - MD5 of downloaded ISO is correct
  Ubuntu Gnome Beta 2 - MD5 of downloaded ISO is correct
  Ubuntu Gnome Daily build 28th September - MD5 no longer available for checking

  also when I burnt them with Brassero I ticked the box which says
  something like "Verify after burning"

  On all 3 DVDs the installer fails to run properly on my hardware

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