Can't get Ubuntu 7.10 to install on Dell Optiplex GX-260: Harddrive not found

Hi !

to determine if this is a problem of the graphic installer of a deeper one, could you please post here the result of the command

sudo fdisk -l

(type that in a console while using the liveCD)

and post the result here.

Hi Olivier,

Thanks for the quick reaction. I've just booted the liveCD and forgot that my USB stick was still connected to the computer. I opened the console, typed sudo fdisk -l and the result was that the USB stick was found but no mention of the harddisk. Then I tried the installer again and, at the point where I have to choose the partitions, I now saw the USB stick, not the harddisk. So I assume the partition chooser seems to work.

Can it be that I might need a seperate IDE driver CD for the Dell's IDE driver? Not very likely as the DVD-ROM player on the same IDE device (different cables) and works. Can Cable Select be a source of trouble? Or should I've changed a BIOS settings prior to installation?

With kind regards.

Bert

OK. could you please copy here the output of the command "dmesg" ?

Olivier,

Sorry for the late response, had to work. It's a rather long listing, but here it is:

sudo dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fe71000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fe71000 - 000000001fe73000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fe73000 - 000000001fe94000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000001fe94000 - 000000001ff00000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 510MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 130673) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 130673
[ 0.000000] HighMem 130673 -> 130673
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 130673
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 130673
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 988 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 125589 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FEBA0 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FEBA0, 0014 (r0 DELL )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000FD509, 0038 (r1 DELL GX260 9 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000FD541, 0074 (r1 DELL GX260 9 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT FFFD861C, 26B0 (r1 DELL dt_ex 1000 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 1FE71000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT FFFDACCC, 00A7 (r1 DELL st_ex 1000 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 000FD5B5, 006C (r1 DELL GX260 9 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 000FD621, 0028 (r1 DELL GX260 9 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: ASF! 000FD649, 0067 (r16 DELL GX260 9 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x07] disabled)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[ 0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
[ 0.000000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[ 0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1ff00000:ded00000)
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 129653
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 0.000000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 2399.744 MHz processor.
[ 37.235160] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 37.235687] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 37.236113] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 37.248379] Memory: 506380k/522692k available (2015k kernel code, 15684k reserved, 916k data, 364k init, 0k highmem)
[ 37.248391] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 37.248392] fixmap : 0xfff4d000 - 0xfffff000 ( 712 kB)
[ 37.248393] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 37.248395] vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB)
[ 37.248396] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdfe71000 ( 510 MB)
[ 37.248397] .init : 0xc03e3000 - 0xc043e000 ( 364 kB)
[ 37.248398] .data : 0xc02f7d26 - 0xc03dce84 ( 916 kB)
[ 37.248399] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f7d26 (2015 kB)
[ 37.248403] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 37.248445] SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 37.328335] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4803.47 BogoMIPS (lpj=9606941)
[ 37.328365] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 37.328373] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 37.328388] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 37.328551] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
[ 37.328566] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
[ 37.328569] CPU: L2 cache: 512K
[ 37.328572] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
[ 37.328574] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 0000b080 00004400 00000000 00000000
[ 37.328588] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 37.328603] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 37.344435] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 37.344670] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 37.345008] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 37.688403] ACPI: Core revision 20070126
[ 37.701043] ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... error, file /DSDT.aml not found.
[ 37.725065] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz stepping 07
[ 37.725110] Total of 1 processors activated (4803.47 BogoMIPS).
[ 37.725248] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[ 37.725448] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[ 37.871487] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 37.871643] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 37.871721] Time: 21:53:18 Date: 10/09/107
[ 37.871754] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 37.871875] EISA bus registered
[ 37.871892] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[ 37.890414] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbdea, last bus=1
[ 37.890417] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 37.890419] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 37.955724] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 37.981118] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[ 37.981123] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
[ 37.981151] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[ 38.009038] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[ 38.009058] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 38.009500] * The chipset may have PM-Timer Bug. Due to workarounds for a bug,
[ 38.009502] * this clock source is slow. If you are sure your timer does not have
[ 38.009503] * this bug, please use "acpi_pm_good" to disable the workaround
[ 38.009551] PCI quirk: region 0800-087f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO
[ 38.009555] PCI quirk: region 0880-08bf claimed by ICH4 GPIO
[ 38.009857] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
[ 38.009882] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[ 38.010361] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
[ 38.099026] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
[ 38.099350] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
[ 38.099666] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
[ 38.099983] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
[ 38.100296] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
[ 38.100610] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
[ 38.100923] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
[ 38.101240] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
[ 38.101383] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 38.101395] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[ 38.101406] ACPI: bus type pnp registered
[ 38.124072] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 38.124075] ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
[ 38.124081] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[ 38.124147] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[ 38.124150] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[ 38.128426] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 38.128429] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 38.128515] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved
[ 38.128519] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0xffffff could not be reserved
[ 38.128522] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x1000000-0x1fe70fff could not be reserved
[ 38.128526] pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xc0000-0xcbfff could not be reserved
[ 38.128538] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x85f has been reserved
[ 38.128541] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
[ 38.128544] pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
[ 38.131002] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 38.158881] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
[ 38.158885] IO window: e000-efff
[ 38.158891] MEM window: ff800000-ff9fffff
[ 38.158896] PREFETCH window: disabled.
[ 38.158911] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
[ 38.158926] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 38.194960] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 38.195020] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
[ 38.195206] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 38.195343] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
[ 38.195346] TCP reno registered
[ 38.207053] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 38.658130] Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
[ 38.884548] Freeing initrd memory: 7305k freed
[ 38.884758] Simple Boot Flag value 0x87 read from CMOS RAM was invalid
[ 38.884761] Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
[ 38.885079] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 38.885101] audit(1194645198.280:1): initialized
[ 38.887612] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 38.887676] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 38.887801] io scheduler noop registered
[ 38.887804] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 38.887806] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 38.887824] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 38.887845] Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
[ 38.888103] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 39.241720] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 39.277398] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 39.277508] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 39.277615] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 39.278642] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[ 39.279585] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 39.279866] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 39.279962] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 39.279965] PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12
[ 39.283419] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 39.283430] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 39.283684] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 39.283829] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 39.283869] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 39.284000] TCP cubic registered
[ 39.284015] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 39.284044] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 39.284231] Magic number: 15:274:904
[ 39.284353] hash matches device ptyz0
[ 39.284969] Freeing unused kernel memory: 364k freed
[ 39.321020] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
[ 40.526954] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized<5>audit(1194645199.780:2): type=1505 info="AppArmor initialized" pid=1156
[ 40.537110] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 40.543987] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 40.566264] ACPI Exception (processor_core-0783): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20070126]
[ 41.249258] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 41.249291] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 41.249320] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 41.264983] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 41.265082] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 41.265097] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
[ 41.265101] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
[ 41.265295] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 41.265327] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 16, io base 0x0000ff80
[ 41.265478] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 41.265510] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 41.265518] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 41.332732] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 41.339705] libata version 2.21 loaded.
[ 41.349868] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI
[ 41.349872] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
[ 41.413585] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 41.413603] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
[ 41.413608] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
[ 41.413639] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 41.413687] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
[ 41.413694] PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
[ 41.413706] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 17, io mem 0xffa00800
[ 41.418203] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[ 41.418310] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 41.418345] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 41.418358] hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
[ 41.459420] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[ 41.515548] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 41.522317] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 41.522335] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
[ 41.522340] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
[ 41.522397] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 41.522430] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 18, io base 0x0000ff60
[ 41.522563] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 41.522599] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 41.522611] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 41.625099] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 41.625114] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
[ 41.625118] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 41.625149] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
[ 41.625178] uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 19, io base 0x0000ff40
[ 41.625305] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 41.625337] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 41.625347] hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 41.731855] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:0c.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 41.748770] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 42.003072] e1000: 0000:01:0c.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:08:74:d0:f4:09
[ 42.039891] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
[ 42.042681] ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.11
[ 42.042698] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
[ 42.042707] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 42.042767] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64
[ 42.042869] scsi0 : ata_piix
[ 42.042921] scsi1 : ata_piix
[ 42.042955] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x0001ffa0 irq 14
[ 42.042958] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x0001ffa8 irq 15
[ 42.211939] usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 42.482809] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 42.619570] ata2.00: ATAPI: JLMS DVD-ROM XJ-HD166, DD05, max UDMA/33
[ 42.719062] usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[ 42.775460] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 42.776165] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM JLMS DVD-ROM XJ-HD166 DD05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 42.789678] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 42.789685] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 42.789935] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 42.795266] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
[ 42.851606] usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 43.058487] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
[ 43.106493] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[ 43.113523] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 43.113530] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 43.116899] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 43.346002] usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 43.360296] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 43.381582] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 43.500223] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 43.503339] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 43.503388] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 43.503391] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 43.503411] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 43.503414] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 43.517545] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 43.530509] input: HID 062a:0000 as /class/input/input2
[ 43.530660] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [HID 062a:0000] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
[ 43.530679] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 43.530684] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 43.599514] Registering unionfs 1.4
[ 43.599520] unionfs: debugging is not enabled
[ 43.623960] loop: module loaded
[ 43.792223] squashfs: version 3.2-UBUNTU (2007/07/26) Phillip Lougher
[ 48.493263] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 48.494253] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access CANYON CN-USB20EFD0512A 1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 48.494617] scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 48.503337] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 983808 512-byte hardware sectors (504 MB)
[ 48.503954] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 48.503957] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[ 48.503959] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 48.505202] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 983808 512-byte hardware sectors (504 MB)
[ 48.505824] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 48.505827] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[ 48.505830] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 48.505837] sda: sda1
[ 48.506953] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 87.544759] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 87.659445] agpgart: Detected an Intel 830M Chipset.
[ 87.659617] agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory.
[ 87.677885] agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
[ 87.733964] i810_smbus 0000:00:02.0: i810/i815 i2c device found.
[ 88.020471] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 88.347886] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 88.655448] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[ 88.726347] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 88.727486] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (21-Jan-2007)
[ 88.727591] iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
[ 88.727597] iTCO_wdt: No card detected
[ 88.750433] intel_rng: FWH not detected
[ 89.038458] parport_pc 00:09: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
[ 89.038512] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
[ 89.770090] ieee80211_init: failed to initialize WME (err=-17)
[ 89.872141] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 89.872166] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
[ 89.892172] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_unregister
[ 89.892225] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_put
[ 89.892269] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_sta_info_get
[ 89.892339] iwlwifi_rc80211_simple: Unknown symbol iwlwifi_ieee80211_rate_control_register
[ 89.898375] wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
[ 90.050375] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
[ 90.054322] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb
[ 90.292816] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54844 usecs
[ 90.292821] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[ 94.175778] No dock devices found.
[ 94.298934] input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input4
[ 94.304225] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[ 94.347797] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
[ 94.353025] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
[ 99.034993] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[ 99.166168] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 100.503283] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 100.503289] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[ 100.829624] Failure registering capabilities with primary security module.
[ 101.432253] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
[ 101.432412] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[ 101.432416] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[ 101.432421] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[ 101.524991] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[ 101.524996] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 101.702204] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 101.702328] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 101.702332] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
[ 107.218281] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 107.239073] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 107.242219] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0

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Hope this is a hint for you.

With kind regards,

Bert

 Could you also post the output of the "lspci" command ?

for some dells, booting with the option pci=nomsi seems to help. You might want to try that

http://ubuntu1501.blogspot.com/2007/01/installing-ubuntu-on-your-dell-1501.html

only a guess anyway.

you might also want to tweek you bios settings concerning ATA IDE and SATA support.

Hi Olivier,

Sorry for replying later. Here's the answe4rs:

lspci:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)

The pci=nomsi trick didn't workout.

I've worked my way through the BIOS and can't find something being wrong really. I've even tried cheating a bit by downloading the Dell Ubuntu 7.04 CD-image, but trying to use that resulted in a black screen and a monitor crying that the input is out of range. The monitor is a Philips Brilliance 107P.

Thus so far no luck. I'll keep on trying but hints towards a solution are still welcome.

Hi !

You may try booting with that option

pci=routeirq

What you should be looking for in your bios, is an option for IDE or ATA support. LIke "Legacy ATA support" or something. Just try to change it.

Hi Olivier,

Still no joy, unfortunately. I've got to let it rest until next weekend, having too much things to do. The plan for next weekend is to do a Debian install, as I've learned that Ubuntu is heavily based Debian and I do have some positive experiences with Debian (although I can't remember if that was on a Dell Optiplex GX2xx series or not). If I succeed I will post it here.

With kind regards and many thanks for the patient help.

Bert

PS: I will post this message as a 'problem solved'