Problems installing any version, up to 8.04

[Mark Halegua]

On Wednesday 21 May 2008 10:18:24 am Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Mark Halegua wrote:
> > Any version of ubuntu I've tried to start as a live CD or install comes
> > up with a similar screen, and that includes 8.04, 7.10, Linux Mint 3.0
> > and Linux Mint 4.0, all based on ubuntu.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what may be causing this?  I don't see any error
> > messages, and dmesg isn't showing me any problems.  The only errors are
> > with the fd0 sector 0 lookup.   And that's because there is no floppy
> > disk.
>
> It has something to do with SCSI based systems but I can't tell you
> specifically what.
>
> I ran 7.10 on 4 or 5 computers and had no installation problems.  Then I
> tried to switch my email server from SuSE over to  7.10.  This particular
> system is SCSI based whereas the others were not.
>
> I got that error many times and spent a day trying to get the system loaded
> but did not succeed.  I finally copied over all of the files from a
> different 7.10 system  and it was able to boot with a lot of timeouts. 
> Once I got the system squared away and updated, things seemed to settle
> down and it has been running nicely since.
>
> I would submit an error report if I were you.  Unless you stand on your
> head, you're not going to get it to install. IMHO

What I've done is I tried installing 6.10, which worked.  I'm currently in the 
process of upgrading to 7.04, from which I'll upgrade to 7.10 and then 8.04, 
or, if I can, straight to 8.04.

I just found out a friend of mine also had the same problem.   I don't know if 
he's using scsi or not.  I'll find out.

Mark