Install problems with Partition Window

[L Paz]

--- On Tue, 12/16/08, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
From: Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com>
Subject: Re: Install problems with Partition Window
To: lpaz1 at yahoo.com, "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 1:51 PM

L Paz wrote:
> On with the continuing saga, I guess. I booted up from the Alternate CD,
as Charlie suggested, and when I try to install, I get to a screen that says No
Disks selected. if you know the driver you need , select it from the following
list:
> 
> then there, is a long list of drivers to choose from.
> 
> So, I guess my question is, if I go into Grub and choose the 2.6.22-16
generic kernel to boot into, is there a command I can use that will tell me what
the hard drive driver is that currently is being used?
> 
> Thanks again for all your assistance with this!
> 
>

Try the Device manager..  On my system, in can be found in System ->
Preferences -> Hardware Information

(Why Preferences and not Administration?  I haven't a clue.)

You should be able to find your hard drive in the long list, and
collapse the tree until you see the controller device.  There should
also be an advanced tab for this device that tells you which "Linux
Driver" is being used.


However, unless you are trying to track this bug down for the kernel
devs, it's probably more productive to find out what you need to do to
get the default hardy kernel to auto-detect your system.

Some ideas you might pursue., at least to narrow down problem suspects:

Make sure your hard drive is the only device on the IDE cable.
Sometimes the CD-ROM is plugged in to the same cable as the Hard drive.
 Where possible, each device should be on it's own channel/cable.

If you must have 2 devices on an IDE cable, jumper them for
Master/Slave, rather than relying on Cable Select.

If you have only 1 device on the hard drive ribbon, verify that it is
jumpered correctly.  Some Hard drives have different jumper
configurations for master when a slave is present and single drive.

In the Bios, disable RAID (if you have  a raid chip function on your
mobo)  (Note: this might be a bad idea if you really are using multiple
hard drives in a raid configuration)

And finally, or maybe this should be firstly, since you already have a
working system and don't need to install from scratch (or, at least, we
know installing from scratch won't resolve this issue.), be sure to test
my idea of updating the Hardy kernel and see if the newer kernels
already fix this.  There's no much point chasing your tail trying to fix
something that was already fixed last year.

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Ok, I tried your suggestion to runapt-get update and apt-get upgrade. The first time I ran apt-get update,
this message was towards the bottom:
Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

So I ran apt-get update , again, and this time there were no warning messages when
it completed:
Reading package lists... Done

Ok, so now I ran apt-get upgrade, but it looks like the only thing that was upgraded
was the documents. I did not see anything about the kernel, at any rate:
Reading package lists... Done
paz at paz-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  ubuntu-docs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3520kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main ubuntu-docs 8.06.1 [3520kB]
Fetched 3520kB in 56s (62.5kB/s)                                          
(Reading database ... 125371 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ubuntu-docs 8.04.2~hardy (using .../ubuntu-docs_8.06.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ubuntu-docs ...
Setting up ubuntu-docs (8.06.1) ...
$

I will take the hard drive off and check the manufacturer, and check the jumpers, as you suggest.
I will also check the Bios settings, as you suggest.

I am not certain of what all the ramifications are by running on the
Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.22-16-generic kernel, instead of the
Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic kernel?
But I guess one of the reasons I would like to either fix this or
reinstall is because my VPN connection with the Cisco VPN software does not
work, and I think it has something to do with me actually running the system
on the 2.6.22-16 generic kernel, but I am not positive.

Thanks again for your help with this!




      
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