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<p>Weird!</p>
<p>I got 17.3 Mint rosa installed on ide so I can choose 17.3; but
Ubuntu 18.04 and Lubuntu 18.04 don't boot from cd.</p>
<p>I put the dvd (recently downloaded version so after the official
release date) and checked it sha256 - OK; ran the memory
diagnostic - OK.</p>
<p>I get a funny little logo at the bottom of a mauve screen and
then the screen goes black.</p>
<p>After some time, (and sounds like the dvd is looping) I hit Esc
and get some text on the screen:</p>
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<p>44.024034 ata1.01 : exception Emask 0x0 soct 0x0 Serr 0x0
action 0x6 frozen</p>
<p>44.21031 ata1.01: a0/1:00 (followed by more similar numbers)</p>
<p>44.24103 Read(10)28 00 00 23 (and more such) Emask 0x4
(timeout)</p>
<p>44.24204 ata1.01: status {DRDY}</p>
</blockquote>
<p>If I wait some more, I get a repetition of the above preceded by
82. ... instead of 44. <br>
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<p>And after another wait I get another repetition at 117. I then
power off the computer. I had to write down the above, obviously,
so there may be mistakes in it, but you get the gist. I don't know
what it all means. Does anyone else?</p>
<p>Peter Richards<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. - Albert Einstein</pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-06-14 12:19 PM, Chris Clark
wrote:<br>
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<div>Peter,</div>
<div>Sounds Like Fun, reminds me of installing PCLinuxOS the
first time.<br>
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<div>I was thinking I might have to install with another machine
and move the HDD over 1 at a time.</div>
<div><u><b>Will it boot to pxe ???</b></u></div>
<div>Thanks !!<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:04 PM, Peter
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pjr@bmts.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">pjr@bmts.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello
Chris:<br>
<br>
I got Linux Mint Maya installed and booting - finally.<br>
<br>
The box I borrowed from STARS has a SATA (Samsung SP0411C/R,
sda, 40 HB SATA, 7200 rpm, D0 in BIOS) as well as 2 IDE (
ST3082110A, 80 GB, IDE D4 in BIOS, and a cd/dvd drive)
drives and a 3.5 inch diskette drive. One site in my
research said that Dell shipped the IDE drives jumpered as
Cable Select but their installations only worked if they
were jumpered as Master & Slave. I did not change
anything here and I don't know how mine were jumpered. The
Dell Precision 380 dates somewhere on or after 2006 but is a
nice machine, nonetheless.<br>
<br>
The 3.5 inch always showed its light on. I tried the ancient
thing of turning the connector over (in the days before
keyed connectors, having the drive light always on was a
sign it was on backwards) - no change, so I unplugged it and
turned it OFF in the BIOS. And I don't have any diskettes to
try in it, anyway.<br>
<br>
The box was not happy if the SATA drive was disconnected and
would not boot.<br>
<br>
UNETBOOTIN on a USB stick did not work.<br>
<br>
I put the Maya cd in the drive and changed the boot order in
BIOS and it booted OK. Then I installed Linux. All appeared
to go well, but it would not boot. I tried a System Rescue
Disk and a Knoppix disk and I could see all the Linux files
were on the SATA drive, sda. But no boot. Tried the
update-grub (I can never remember if it's update-grub or
grub-update!) but it complained that I was attempting to
change a read-only file several tries and an error message
which I've forgotten. Othere people reported similar
messages. Several times it appeared to be booting and
stopped; hitting ctrl-esc showed the last activity was
starting the cups printing server. Tried the Boot Repair
disk - it reported success and finished, but no boot. Note,
for the installation of Maya, I did the manual ('something
else') install and partitioned the drive as 100 MB for
/boot, 10 GB for /, 5 GB for swap area, and the rest as
/home. This is my usual process so I can change the OS
version and not lose my /home files. But I still make a
backup just in case when I upgrade even though I've never
had to use it.<br>
<br>
So, I went back to square one, as they say. Put the Maya cd
in and ran the live version. I deleted the existing
partition table and created a new one using GPARTED. Then I
installed Maya again. This time I told it to erase the disk
and take it all for the installation, except it wanted a
swap area, so I gave it 5 GB for that. Installation went OK
as before. Then, wonders never cease, it rebooted after I
restarted it (soft one, ie no power off). Then I did the
update. Many new files, including LibreOffice - is that
normal? Shutdown (hard, power off) and reboot. Success!
Repeated the shutdown/restart several times OK.<br>
<br>
In summary: I turned off the diskette drive, made sure the
SATA drive and the IDEs were plugged in, tried several times
with the cd boot process and did not pre-partition the drive
but let Maya take it over.<br>
<br>
If I do it again, I might try putting /home on the IDE
drive, but that will come much later, if at all. Also, I
might try Ubuntu 18, just for giggles.<br>
<br>
Peter Richards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -
Albert Einstein<br>
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