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Help & support for Ultimate Edition 1.9


Help...

Postby gama » Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:00 pm

Hello everyone,
I recently found Ultimate edition and fell in love with it.
I made a DVD and tried it out, and decided to dual-boot XP pro and Ultimate, to get the best of both worlds.
Also, I purchased a new WD 640 GB hard drive, and my friend gave me his spare 80 GB hard drive, both drives are sata.
Now, I loaded XP on the 640 GB drive with little hassle. After setting XP up and installing SP3, I decided to pop in the DVD to get Ultimate working also.
It didn't work.
To be more elaborate, It loaded up fine and I chose to start Ultimate. After the loading screen I got some errors that I believe have to do with the sata drives.
To check this out, I unplugged both sata drives and plugged the IDE drive in. After doing that, Ultimate worked fine. I pull that drive out and plug the 640 GB drive in, and the same error happens the first time.

Please help me, I don't know what to do.

My system:
cpu: Q6600
video card: Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS
ram: 2 GB ddr2
hd: WDC 640 GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136218
Seagate Barracuda 80GB
330 GB ide (don't know brand off the top of my head)


Thanks for your help
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Re: Help...

Postby gama » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:06 am

No, I looked through the bios and sata drives were set to ide.
Also, when i have the dvd in windows, I tried the optiong "help me to boot from CD" and it gave me the error "Could not find any appropriate CD".
I don't know if that will help or not, but there it is.

thanks for your help
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Re: Help...

Postby gama » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:45 pm

My CD/DVD drive is sata

and the only settings i can put the drives on are: ide, raid, and ahci.


I made some progress, however, by trying 1.4 CD
I managed to install it on my 80 GB hard drive, but that is as far as I got
Now I can get to GRUB and choose ubuntu, but it hangs after that and if I wait, I get to the busy box.

this is starting to tick me off :x


thanks for everyone trying to help me out
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Re: Help...

Postby ixnod » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:17 pm

mmkay, Just need some clarification here.

Are you booting from the DVD, and it works?

Are you installing onto a different hard drive other than the winderz partition?

the other hard drive,the one that was donated, 80 gig are you having trouble isues with that one or the other disk?

Are you booting ultimate from internal hard drive, or is it connected Via USB/E-SATA?


Any extra details would be appreciated.
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Re: Help...

Postby gama » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:51 pm

Booting from 1.4 CD works, booting from 1.9 DVD does not.

Windows is on the 640 GB hard drive, I installed ultimate on the 80 GB hard drive.

I think the trouble is with both drives.

Booting the 1.4 is from 80 GB drive which is internal.

I'm guna try to install 1.4 on a partition on the 640 GB drive to see if it works there.

thanks for all help
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Re: Help...

Postby DaddyX3 » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:02 pm

gama wrote:Booting from 1.4 CD works, booting from 1.9 DVD does not.

Windows is on the 640 GB hard drive, I installed ultimate on the 80 GB hard drive.

I think the trouble is with both drives.

Booting the 1.4 is from 80 GB drive which is internal.

I'm guna try to install 1.4 on a partition on the 640 GB drive to see if it works there.

thanks for all help


1.4 will have its issues with hardware recognition for a system as new as yours. I would recomend only going back to the next version lower and see if it works .. In other words ... try 1.8, its still Hardy based .. if that don't work, try 1.6 (gnome version) Which is Gusty based ... I would not recommend anything lower than this unless your comfortable with editing your xorg.conf files by hand.
Just MHO.
Also, did you try booting in safe graphics mode?
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Re: Help...

Postby pch.shot » Sat Oct 25, 2008 4:21 pm

If anything, Ultimate will have an issue with your video card or your printer long before any other piece of hardware. I have 3 newer WD sata hard drives which work without a problem. I would go with a video card issue. There is plenty of info on video cards in this forum. Unfortunately I am no video card expert by any means.
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Re: Help...

Postby ixnod » Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:26 pm

gama wrote:Booting from 1.4 CD works, booting from 1.9 DVD does not.

Windows is on the 640 GB hard drive, I installed ultimate on the 80 GB hard drive.

I think the trouble is with both drives.


AHHH HAA!! :D are you trying to Ultimate Edition with both Internal hard drives installed? ( hope not)

Going the dual boot route on the 640 GB might see some progress
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Re: Help...

Postby bpollen » Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:48 pm

At the initial boot up screen where you get to choose to start or install Ultimate Edition, you can press F6 to get "other options" (startup parameters, basically.) On the right-hand side of the commandline that appears you have "--" without the quotes. To the left of the two dashes, you can add "noapic nolapic" (again, sans quotes) to help get past some hardware problems. Some distros that I have tested needed that for me to boot, some didn't. Just a thought.
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