[Bug 185878] Re: GRUB installation fails if installing to non-ext3 partition

2009-06-17 Thread specialk
Hi, folks. I just spent the past 3 days pulling my hair out with installations and am happy to find this page. I recently tried a JFS partition and got wise to turn tail the syslog during installation. I didn't confirm during my XFS installations but I bet if I had the energy to confirm the outp

[Bug 185878] Re: GRUB installation fails if installing to non-ext3 partition

2009-06-29 Thread specialk
Why is this problem not fixed? Do I have to switch distros to get non ext support? This is crazy. I managed to install into XFS in prior versions of Ubuntu. What happened? -- GRUB installation fails if installing to non-ext3 partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185878 You received this b

[Bug 403385] Re: How to disable built-in driver during ubuntu 9.04 installation?

2009-08-31 Thread specialk
Thanks Colin. I'm interested to find out how they respond. I believe there will be a few others watching this thread progress. This guy describes very closely the experience I believe I am having: http://half-a-page.blogspot.com/2009/03/ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope- first.html He has some crazy

[Bug 403385] Re: How to disable built-in driver during ubuntu 9.04 installation?

2009-09-01 Thread specialk
I've seen names "Jeff Garzik" and "Leann Ogasawara" on past kernel bug reports. Any chance they could comment on a friendlier way "opt out" of sata_via and/or whether specific issues with sata_via will be addressed? -- How to disable built-in driver during ubuntu 9.04 installation? https://bugs.

[Bug 370232] Re: fglrx: Unknown symbol __call_bad_lock_func

2009-09-23 Thread specialk
I can confirm I still have this bug in the runtime kernel: uname -a Linux specialk 2.6.28-3-rt #12-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Apr 17 10:09:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux sudo dpkg -l | grep fglrx ii fglrx-amdcccle 2:8.650-0ubuntu1 Catalyst

[Bug 403385] Re: How to disable built-in driver during ubuntu 9.04 installation?

2009-08-28 Thread specialk
Hello. I would really like to know the answer to this, too. I am currently working with MSI tech support and I believe the sata_via kernel module is also causing me nightmares to install Linux. I can't find a distribution that works anymore with my motherboard Master2 FAR. Thanks in advance! -K

[Bug 408165] Re: Linksys By Cisco WUSB600N v2 Doesn't Work

2011-10-18 Thread specialk
Hi, Ben. I just finally completed an update to 11.04 with a triple whammy - no grub, no video, no connection. After getting through the first two, I can also confirm that solution provided in #85 allows me again to connect. I think a re-do will be necessary with any kernel or release upgrade. I