David
I had a similar problem with an Intel 945 a few months ago - go into the
BIOS and select "Legacy IDE Mode" for the hard drive.
I dont know about Ubuntu - but I am pretty sure if you download the
latest version of CentOS 4 you should be fine - I was able to install
CentOs 3.4 this way
hope it helps
Danny
David Suna wrote:
I just purchased a new machine and I have been having a very
frustrating time installing linux on it. I have tried installing
ubuntu workstation, ubuntu server and debian etch all without success
but with different failures. The machine is a Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz with
a Gigabyte 945GZ motherboard. It has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250 GB SATA
hard disk and a generic DVD RW combo. I am using the onboard video
and LAN with an additional network card in the box. Below are details
of the errors that I get. I don't know how to tell if this is a
hardware compatibility issue, broken hardware, bad CDs or the phase of
the moon. Any help would be much appreciated.
Debian Etch:
The machine boots into the installation from the CD. However, when it
gets up to detecting the CD ROM it says that it cannot detect any CD.
At that point the installation cannot continue.
Ubuntu workstation:
The CD starts to boot. After a while I get the following error
inti_udevd_socket bind failed address already in use
followed later by
udevd socket illegal seek
and
Assertion failed: qc->n_elem>0 drivers/scsi/libata-core.c,
ata_fil_sg, line=2531
The boot process continues and then I get
INIT: Id "1" respawning to fast
INIT: Id "2" respawning to fast
INIT: Id "3" respawning to fast
INIT: Id "4" respawning to fast
then
No more processes in this runlevel
and then it goes to sleep for five minutes and repeats the respawning
to fast errors
Ubuntu server:
The installation process seems to be going along fine. I manually
configure the network card since I am not running DHCP. When the
installation gets up to creating partitions it gets to 76% of
"creating ext3 file system for / in partition #1 of SCSI (0,0,0)
(sda)..." and hangs.
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