Laurens Bosscher

Ubuntu installation problems

Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:00:58 PM

I have just received a new PC for home/office use. It is a sweet machine boosting a Athlon 3000+ with an Asrock 939 Dual SATA II mobo. I have the HDD connected to the Sata II connection and successfully installed windows XP on it (it did require a driver though) but Ubuntu fails miserably on this machine.

I did some research and I found out that it is most likely a problem with the combination of a IDE DVD drive and a SATA Harddrive.
I have exactly the same problem with my own PC (a MSI NeoV-2 with 2 IDE HardDrives and 2 IDE optical drives, SATA support is onboard but disabled in the BIOS) so I doubt it is just a problem with the combination of these two. I am extremely disappointed in Ubuntu for failing to fix these critical bugs.

As we speak I am downloading the installation CD for Dapper Drake if that fails I will have to keep Windows XP on those two machines. I suggest that if Ubuntu wants to fix Bug #1 they start by fixing this bug.

I submitted a Bug report :
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/41753 Asrock 939 Dual SATA II
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/41754 MSI Neo2-V

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Comments

Unregistered user # Sunday, April 15, 2007 6:59:53 PM

Anonymous writes: i have ablack screen when i install ubuntu

Unregistered user # Friday, August 31, 2007 12:14:39 PM

Anonymous writes: Same here, plain black screen, seems to take ages loading cdrom drivers, and then just goes into a black screen. however my hdd is sata and my dvdram is ide.... so maybe thats my problem?

Unregistered user # Friday, November 2, 2007 10:21:40 PM

DevilKiller writes: Yeah... I was so looking forward to using Ubuntu, but cannot install it due to having a blank screen right at the start-up. I thought it was my PC, however jusy found out that it is a bug problem in sata and Ide configurations.

Unregistered user # Friday, February 15, 2008 9:35:41 AM

Anonymous writes: same here. plays some jungle noises then the screen goes black. seems like it's loading for a while but to no end. also have pata cd and sata hdd

Unregistered user # Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:51:07 AM

Anonymous writes: I have the same problem, so may i ask what is Dapper Drake and will this fix the issue.

Unregistered user # Friday, July 18, 2008 5:49:56 PM

Anonymous writes: yah, whenever i try to install Ubuntu (hardy heron) from the CD, the progress bar goes all the way up, then the screen goes black forever. Im not sure what my sata or hdd is because im not sure wat that is.

Unregistered user # Saturday, December 13, 2008 10:08:25 AM

Anonymous writes: The same goes for me,black screen after the progress bar is at the end.I have 4 SATA HDD.

Unregistered user # Saturday, December 13, 2008 7:26:01 PM

Suman Sengupta writes: i hv the Celleron 1.7Ghz CPU. Can i install the Ubantu in my PC.Please suggest. Regards, Suman Sengupta email ID:sengupta1.suman@gmail.com

Unregistered user # Friday, December 26, 2008 9:32:08 AM

anji writes: i'm also have the same problem. i think the problem is with sata hard disk only

Unregistered user # Tuesday, January 13, 2009 5:57:41 PM

me writes: same problem here... do you guys have a wide-screen display (with digital plug)? maybe that's the problem?

Unregistered user # Sunday, February 1, 2009 9:26:08 AM

frank b writes: here also, sata drive, black screen, no install

Unregistered user # Friday, February 27, 2009 3:48:24 PM

jacob writes: yeah...i am also having the same problem.

Unregistered user # Thursday, March 5, 2009 6:20:11 PM

Anónimo writes: i have a problem when i install ubuntu the sreen freezes and the cursor icon like melt or get distorted can anyone help me... my mail is fer_isalguegt@hotmail.com

Unregistered user # Monday, March 9, 2009 11:55:47 AM

mayank writes: my istallatiom of ubuntu is complete normaly but when i login and enter password and then enter then the whole screen goes black and no response and this blak screen last and not ending plz help me what i do to solve this problrm

Unregistered user # Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:05:48 PM

thanser writes: Similar problem - I can install Ubuntu 8.10 perfectly fine, and after logging in I only get a light brown wallpaper, no icons or menu bar, and a working mouse. I do not see the desktop wallpaper you see during installation. I do not have any SATA drives on this Dell Dimension 2300 test machine. 1 Gb RAM, P4 1.6 Ghz processor. Anyone?

Unregistered user # Monday, September 6, 2010 8:26:04 PM

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Unregistered user # Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:32:58 PM

Anonymous writes: When installing Ubuntu at the last step to set up the user account i can't press the foward button to move on to the next step. Can someone solve this problem???