[Bug 571366] [NEW] Installation CD or USB drive won't boot in Everex

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Last week I took aone of my laptops, An Everex Cloudbook, and upgraded
from Karmic to Lucid. There were a few python issues that I couldn't
correct. I decided I would do a fresh install of Lucid release and hoped
that cleared up the problems. I downloaded ubuntu-10.04-rc-
desktop-i386.iso (md5sum 9b88dce8d215a3c2839105ab8e3139be), verified its
md5 hash, then burned to a cd. The cd wouldn't boot in the laptop.
Thinking it could be the media, I burned it on other blank CD-ROM's I
had. Still no luck.

Finally I used the startup disk creator tool to create a bootable usb
drive. It wouldn't boot either even though I had made sure that booting
from usb-device was first when looking for bootable media. I also tried
using UNetBootin to prepare a bootable usb drive and still no luck.

This has led me to believe there is something in the boot.img or
initrd.img that doesn't work with this particular laptop. I fixed my
problem by performing a fresh install with a karmic cd ( 9.10). Once
that was up and configured I went through and performed a distr-upgrade
to lucid. This time the python worked properly.

The solution to the problem is a ridiculous way to go because it
literally took 3.5 hours and that was upgrading from a pristine Karmic
install.

Please take a look at this problem.

Thanks for the help!

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Installation CD or USB drive won't boot in Everex
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