Problems installing Ubuntu 6.06

[Greg Madden]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:28:05 -0700 (PDT)
Rick Ziegler <rziegler72 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Forgive me if I'm in the wrong place.  I'm new to Linux & Ubuntu, and
> know little about hardware.
> 
> I'm having problems trying to install Ubuntu 6.06 on a brand new
> system:
> 
> Intel motherboard with integrated video/sound
> 1 Intel 6600 Core 2 Duo 2.4 ghz CPU
> 2 gb RAM (4 x 512mb)
> 2 x 320GB SATA hard drives
> 
> I can boot from the CD to the initial install screen and choose the
> option to 'Start or install Ubuntu'.  It says 'Loading Linux
> kernel...' but then just hangs at 'Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting
> the kernel.'  The CD light just stops and it goes no further.
> 
> The CD itself should be fine, since I've used the exact CD on 2 other
> smaller systems which installed fine.
> 
> I don't think it's a problem with the new system, since I tried a
> WinXP install and that worked fine, but I don't want to go back to
> that...
> 
> From some Googling I found a couple boot options (using F6 at the
> menu) that I've tried at the initial boot menu.
> 
> Using the boot option 'noapic acpi=noirq nolapic' tells me:
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> [17179569.184000] BIOS bug, no explicit IRQ entries, using default
> mptable. (tell your hw vendor) [17179569.828000] BIOS bug, local APIC
> #0 not detected!...
> 
> If I try the boot option 'noapic acpi=off' this gets a bit further
> ang goes to the screen with the brown Ubuntu progress bar:
> 
> Loading essential drivers     ok
> Mounting root filesystem
> 
> but then I get this again:
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> [17179569.184000] BIOS bug, no explicit IRQ entries, using default
> mptable. (tell your hw vendor)
> 
> I'm not sure what these boot options really mean, and they haven't
> really gotten me further, but just given me different error messages.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.  Please let me know if there is any
> other info I can provide.  I really don't want to go back to Windows.
> 
> ~Rick

Just a guess but it seems the Sata controller is not supported during
the install. Check the chipset on the Sata controller with what is
shipped with the default kernel.

You can determine the chipset by booting a Knoppix. or equal, cd and
researching the chipst found using 'lspci -v' with the kernel source,
(grep ).

-- 
Greg Madden