Installation Hangs

Hello !

Booting for CD is clearly terribly slow ... But I think 1 hour is quite a lot indeed ...

Maybe you should try to install it with the alternate CD, which provides a text mode installer. Once the system is installed, it is easier to troubleshoot and it is really quick (if graphical session doesn't start in 30 seconds, there is a problem) ... You can download it here : http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.04/release/xubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso

Regards,
Benoît

thanks

Benoit Malet <email address hidden> wrote: Your question #6680 on Ubuntu changed:
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Benoit Malet proposed the following answer:
Hello !

Booting for CD is clearly terribly slow ... But I think 1 hour is quite
a lot indeed ...

Maybe you should try to install it with the alternate CD, which provides
a text mode installer. Once the system is installed, it is easier to
troubleshoot and it is really quick (if graphical session doesn't start
in 30 seconds, there is a problem) ... You can download it here :
http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/7.04/release/xubuntu-7.04-alternate-i386.iso

Regards,
Benoît

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Hello !

Please let us know if this solved your problem.

Regards,
Benoît

Hi,
After my post and before trying the Alternate CD, I booted from the CD in Safe Mode. That worked but the resolution wasn't very good. I then tried the CD on a Dell 8200 and it booted fine so I concluded it has something to do with the Thinkpad T21. I then tried Ubuntu 7.04 alternate CD on the T21 and after following all the instructions the installation seemed to complete fine. But on ejecting the CD as instructed and booting from the T21 Hard Drive again it stalled a little after the message "starting Gnome ....." as it goes through a list of the drivers its starting. I gave up and went back to Windows XP. Hope this is helpful.

Hello !

In fact, there seem to be a problem with your graphical settings ... What's the graphic adapter used by your Thinkpad ?

Once (X)ubuntu is installed, it's possible to edit the config file for Xorg (the graphical server), but it has to be done in console (aka text mode) ... Not really user friendly, but so you can troubleshoot almost anything ...

Tell us if you plan to give it another try and we'll try our best to help ;)

Regards,
Benoît

Oh Boy, I would love to give it another try but after reinstalling Windows XP and all the application software, I will probably wait till October at which time the current user will not need the computer. How should I contact you at that time or can you give me some step by step instructions now, and I can try then and get hold of you if I need help?

  Thanks
  Praful

Benoit Malet <email address hidden> wrote:
  Your question #6680 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/6680

Status: Open => Answered

Benoit Malet proposed the following answer:
Hello !

In fact, there seem to be a problem with your graphical settings ...
What's the graphic adapter used by your Thinkpad ?

Once (X)ubuntu is installed, it's possible to edit the config file for
Xorg (the graphical server), but it has to be done in console (aka text
mode) ... Not really user friendly, but so you can troubleshoot almost
anything ...

Tell us if you plan to give it another try and we'll try our best to
help ;)

Regards,
Benoît

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Hello !

It is probably best to wait until October then ... There should be a new Ubuntu version at the time (one release every 6 months), so hopefully you won't encounter a single problem ;) ...

Please post here when you need ...

Regards,
Benoît

PS : could you close this ticket, so it helps keeping our boards clean and efficient ?

Hi,

Same problem faced by myself as well. I am installing Ubuntu 7.04 onto IBM T21 laptop. As mentioned in the posting 6680 the install hangs once the GNOME display manager is reported as OK and X-window display is about to come up. The screen stays absilutely blank no HDD or DVD drive activity at all. Using the safe graphics option you can get it to a point where the X-Window display manager also starts up. But after install from a safe graphics option, when starting up, the T21 again hangs at the point when it reports "starting gnome ... The T21 is a PIII 800MHz, 384MB RAM & 20GB HDD. Video card i think is S3 Savage IX - possibly 8MB Video RAM.

On another note, I also tried to install Debian R4.x, which after install & restart hangs again at the same point when Gnome Xwindow is going to startup!

Other distributions like Suse 10 was able to install and work ok on T21. Any pointers to progress the install issue.

Thanks
Sameer

Just installed Ubuntu 7.04 successfully on a T21 laptop. Had the same problem as here. Default install from the live cd seems to take hours and hang. Instead I used the "alternate" CD and did a text based install. However, on reboot from the just installed hard disk the machine hangs. No disk activity, nothing on the screen.
Then had to reboot in recovery mode to get to a command line. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make a correction:

Change

Section "Device"
  Identifier "S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV"
  Driver "savage"
  BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
 EndSection

to

Section "Device"
  Identifier "S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV"
  Driver "savage"
  BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
  Option "UseFBDev" "false"
  Option "BusType" "PCI"
  Option "DmaMode" "None"
 EndSection

I also removed the touchpad section.

Thanks to this article for the solution http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com/wordpress/linux-installation-reports/ibm-thinkpad-t21-with-debian-gnulinux-40-etch/

Hello Again Benoit,

Trying again to install Ubuntu 7.04 onto Thinkpad T21. Its been a long time since I've worked with the commend line. Anycase folowing Allan S post on 2007-07-15 led me to /# prompt typing /etc/X11/xorg.conf returns the message "Permission denied".

Not sure where to go from here. Ubuntu works so well on my desktop, that I hate to give up.

Will installing the 7.10 release avoid this problem with the graphical settings?

Thanks for the help

OK. So downloaded image for 7.10 and installed. At first bootup from Hard Disk, it hung again. Rebooted and went into setup. Changed display from default AGP to PCI and rebooted.

It worked!!!!!!!!

I now have a T21 model 2647 running Ubuntu.

This laptop did not have a built in wireless card. So am now trying to figure how to get that to work but that's for another post and message string.

Thanks for past help all.

Glad you got it working with the new version. I must try that.

Note that I said "edit" /etc/X11/xorg.conf, not "type". I was assuming you would use whichever text based unix editor you were comfortable with, perhaps vi.