<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM, compdoc <<a href="mailto:compdoc@hotrodpc.com" target="_blank">compdoc@hotrodpc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><div class="im">> The install doesn't get far enough to use external drivers, as soon as I > choose 'Install Ubuntu' I get a blank black screen and it doesn't go any > further than that</div>I use and love 3ware's 9650 controllers. No driver install is needed for those. Isn't the 9240-8i just one the current models being sold? I's hate to buy one if its having these issues. Do you have an array defined in the controller's bios as you're booting Ubuntu? If so, how large is the volume? How many drives are there? Also, what happens if you boot the machine with just the card, and with no drives attached and with the drives powered off? Is it Ubuntu 32 or 64 bit? </div></div> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> <div>Yeah, we have a 9280-8i with Ubuntu running fine but there is a vmware layer in between.</div><div> </div><div>I have 8 1TB disks in there right now, I've setup a 2 disk raid1, I also tried with all disk unattached from the raid card and the configuration cleared, doesn't seem to make a difference Ubuntu still hangs right after choosing to install. I am using the 64bit version.</div>