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boot hangup

Asked by tepaks

I have problem with breezy install on conpaq EVO 510 e-pc PIV 2.4 512 Mb 30 Gb. Initial setup goes fine until first reboot. It just displays "GRUB is loading please wait" and hangs. Tryed install with NOACPI option without succsess. Any ideas?

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Santiago Gómez (evadido) said : 		#1

You could try reinstalling grub:

http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/grubrestore/

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tepaks (nimda-quicknet) said : 		#2

I tried that but without success. It seems like GRUB is not the problem but the ACPI or the BIOS witch doesn’t allow any changes beside basic enable/disable of drives and onboard devices. Same HDD connected to completely different machine boots fine without reinstalling of GRUB. Also tried BIOS update but it looks like this machine is unusable for any other OS beside MS. What I need is a workaround for GRUB/BIOS in other words alternative loader (N.B. same problem with LILO).

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tepaks (nimda-quicknet) said : 		#3

Am I talking to my self here?
Anyway many tries and failures finally found right and only solution for this machine.

For all those who want to now here haw it done.
1. Install Dapper and when system asks to remove install CD replace is with 'Breezy' install CD ant reboot.
2. Complete the questions for the first stage of the installation as if you were installing, until ' Partition Disks' is reached.
3. Select 'Manual Partitioning'.
4. Select your Ubuntu partition.
5. change mount point from whatever) to /.
    change 'bootable' off to 'bootable' (a progress bar will display).
    choose 'done setting up the partition'.
    choose 'finish partitioning and write changes to disk.
6. Sign says: 'If you continue, changes will be written to disk, etc,''Continue?'choose 'Yes'.
7. A red warning screen appears, saying 'Not installing to unclean target' choose 'continue'.
8. A second red warning screen says 'Install the base system failed' choose 'continue' again. (we don't care!).
9. This sees you back in the 'Ubuntu Installer Main Menu', and once there you can scroll down to 'Install Lilo boot loader to a hard disk'.
10. choose 'Install Lilo to MBR”
11.A red warning screen appears, saying 'Not installing to unclean target' choose 'continue'.
12. A second red warning screen says 'Install the base system failed' choose 'continue' again.
13. Then you will be back in the 'Ubuntu Installer Main Menu' again, but be careful not to press 'enter' on anything you don't want,but scroll down immediatley to 'Abort Installation'.
14.Exit the installer.
15.Remove the install CD from your CD drive quickly as soon as you can before it boots from it again!

But this is not the end of the story. Just solved one problem to run I to another.
Saga continues in new episode ”THE 85Hz i810 chipset bug”