In a nutshell:
-I built a new system about a month ago, hardware as listed below.
-Kubuntu 8.04.1 Live DVD, both 32- and 64-bit flavors, simply would not boot. They had a lot of errors something like "couldn't find an input interrupt endpoint" and eventually just aborted to a forlorn command prompt. Further details in my earlier thread, this forum.
-After numerous difficulties installing other OS's, including Windows XP, I RMA'd the motherboard.
-New motherboard installed. Kubuntu 8.04.1 Live DVD still won't boot. Windows XP is OK. Haven't tried another OS.
-Kubuntu 7.04 64-bit worked just dandy. It's downloading updates now, in fact.
What's the deal? I don't understand why the older version would work, but I can't get 8.04.1 to work.
I vaguely recall something about certain Samsung HDDs causing problems for Kubuntu by returning an unexpected character, but can't now recall where I read it or whether there's really anything to it. But, there's obviously something in my system that Kubuntu 8.04.1 doesn't like.
Odd.
Anyway, here's my hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3.16 GHz E8500 processor
ASUS P5E3 WS Pro motherboard
4 GB OCZ PC10666 DDR3 1333MHz RAM (part no. OCZ3SOE13334GK)
XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition video card (part no. PVT98FYDBU)
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1 TB SATA 2 (3 Gb/s) HDD (part no. HD103UJ)
Samsung 3.5" diskette drive (part no. SFD321B/LBL1)
Thermaltake 700W power supply (part no. W0106RU)
Lian Li PC-K7B "Hybrid" mid-tower case (meaning it's part aluminum, part steel)
Lite-On IDE DVD-RW drive
-I built a new system about a month ago, hardware as listed below.
-Kubuntu 8.04.1 Live DVD, both 32- and 64-bit flavors, simply would not boot. They had a lot of errors something like "couldn't find an input interrupt endpoint" and eventually just aborted to a forlorn command prompt. Further details in my earlier thread, this forum.
-After numerous difficulties installing other OS's, including Windows XP, I RMA'd the motherboard.
-New motherboard installed. Kubuntu 8.04.1 Live DVD still won't boot. Windows XP is OK. Haven't tried another OS.
-Kubuntu 7.04 64-bit worked just dandy. It's downloading updates now, in fact.
What's the deal? I don't understand why the older version would work, but I can't get 8.04.1 to work.
I vaguely recall something about certain Samsung HDDs causing problems for Kubuntu by returning an unexpected character, but can't now recall where I read it or whether there's really anything to it. But, there's obviously something in my system that Kubuntu 8.04.1 doesn't like.
Odd.
Anyway, here's my hardware:
Intel Core 2 Duo Wolfdale 3.16 GHz E8500 processor
ASUS P5E3 WS Pro motherboard
4 GB OCZ PC10666 DDR3 1333MHz RAM (part no. OCZ3SOE13334GK)
XFX GeForce 9800 GTX Black Edition video card (part no. PVT98FYDBU)
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1 TB SATA 2 (3 Gb/s) HDD (part no. HD103UJ)
Samsung 3.5" diskette drive (part no. SFD321B/LBL1)
Thermaltake 700W power supply (part no. W0106RU)
Lian Li PC-K7B "Hybrid" mid-tower case (meaning it's part aluminum, part steel)
Lite-On IDE DVD-RW drive