I installed Ubuntu but I cannot boot the hard drive. It appeared to
install successfully without any error, but when I removed the
installation disk so it can self boot, I got the error message: "Disk
Error Press any Key to Restart". I tried turning off the machine a
number of times and tried reinstalling a number of times. It appears the
hard drive was not successfully made bootable by having it install Grub.
I chose the option, which was the default, to install Grub to the master
record of the first hard drive. I only have one hard drive. I did not
get any errors during the installation. Does anyone have any ideas what
the problem could be?
Stan
On 3/9/2017 2:30 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
[LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
> I burned the setup file to a cd on the 2004 vintage machine. The setup
> started working, but now I do not know why. I tried to keep track of
> which disc was which (the 2004 vintage burned disk or the other one) but
> I may have got them mixed up because it is working on the original
> burned disc, if I didn't mix them up. This wouldn't make sense because I
> have tried numerous times to install it on this disc. I could go back
> and put in the other one to see if it also works, but why bother. It is
> working now. I had to terminate the install because it is going to
> detect the IP address, but I do not have the static IP yet. I will be
> getting that next Tuesday.
> Stan
>
> On 3/9/2017 12:33 PM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
> [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>
>> Okay. I'll try burning it to a cd on my 2004 vintage machine. Maybe that
>> is the problem. I had used the new tower case desk top, less than 2 year
>> old, to burn it since I downloaded Ubuntu with it, but it has a DVD
>> drive. It was my understanding it is supposed to function both as a CD
>> and DVD burner, but maybe it does not work quite like it should for CD's.
>> Stan
>>
>>
>> On 3/9/2017 12:05 PM, 'T. Hunt' roversouth@bellsouth.net [LINUX_Newbies]
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It will reformat if you chose that option. If it froze at the language
>>> screen, you didn't get that far yet.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> On 3/9/2017 11:34 AM, Stan Gorodenski stanlep@commspeed.net
>>> [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I had a previous post about a web server and Linux. I decided to learn
>>>> about installing Linux and creating a web server using my 2004 vintage
>>>> Pentium 4 desktop. Once I understand everything and get it to work, if I
>>>> then think I need a new computer, then I can get it.
>>>>
>>>> I could not use ver 16 of Ubuntu because it is 800M in size and my blank
>>>> cd disk can only handle up to 700M. The desktop does not have a dvd
>>>> drive, only a cd drive. So, I downloaded ver 14 which is less than 600M.
>>>> I tried installing it last night and it got hung up on the first page,
>>>> the language page. The Enter key does not work, the arrow keys do not
>>>> work, and the mouse is not active. I left it this way overnight and it
>>>> still was hung up and so Ubuntu was not in the process of doing
>>>> something. It is just hung up for some other reason. The hard drive is
>>>> 30G and has Windows XP on it. All the programs on it use up almost all
>>>> this space. Does Ubuntu require a reformatted drive to install to? I
>>>> thought it would reformat the disc itself.
>>>> Stan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
Posted by: Stan Gorodenski <stanlep@commspeed.net>
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