[Bug 499782] Re: Special boot parameters of Live CD not carried over to installation

[Marcus Tomlinson]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  Special boot parameters of Live CD not carried over to installation

Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Kubuntu Karmic, 9.10
  System information: CPU: Intel Core i5, Bios Version: 0711

  On the computer specified above we were not able to start the Live CD
  correctly. It hanged during the booting process, leaving only a black
  screen with a blinking cursor.

  Providing a special boot parameter via F6 at the Live CD prompt
  (acpi=off) allowed us to boot up the machine correctly. However, after
  a successful permanent installation onto the harddrive, the computer
  didn't boot up correctly (we ended up again at the cursors blinking on
  an otherwise black screen). In order to solve this problem, we had to
  manually provide the necessary boot parameter to Grub2 via the
  following procedure:

  sudo fdisk -l (to list the devices)
  sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
  sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
  sudo chroot /mnt
  nano /etc/default/grub (add acpi=off to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT entry)
  update-grub
  sudo umount /mnt/dev
  sudo umount /mnt

  Given that Ubuntu states that it is Linux for human beings, we would
  have assumed that the Live CD installer would automatically take care
  of this situation and install Ubuntu to the the harddrive the way the
  Live CD was booted. The user could be warned during the permanent
  installation process about the necessary change to the Grub2
  configuration and presented a choice if the installation should
  install with or without the provided special boot parameters.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Dec 23 10:42:00 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
  XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1795): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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