[Novalug] Ubuntu 7.04 login problems (Was: Gateway 2500 BIOS Problems)

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Thu Jul 19 07:09:55 EDT 2007



> ok, I installed the old harddrive (on a recommendation from Megan Larko) and
> the laptop booted fine.  I put in the new harddrive and it froze.  At one
> point I was able to somehow get into bios and manually set the size of the
> new harddrive - unfortunately the bios cylinder count would only go up to
> 65535, but it is listed at 77K+ according to Samsung.
>
> I was able to install Ubuntu 7.04 but I get a ton of errors during boot and
> if I'm lucky enough to see the gnome login screen I can only do a "failsafe
> xterm" login.  I checked out the gdm and xorg logs, no errors really stood
> out to me why I would not be able to select a gnome session, or the default,
> xclient scripts and be able to log in.  When I do, I get a notice about the
> session lasting less than 10 seconds, I check out the logs and there are no
> errors, I click ok and back to the log in screen I go.  Has anyone ever had
> a similar problem with ubuntu or gnome?

Are the things you are seeing above when you use the new drive?

Jay

>
> On 7/18/07, Jon Taimanglo <jontaimanglo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> when i was able to get into bios (before flashing to the latest), i think
>> the only option was either to enable or disable it.  the first time through
>> it was enabled with the autodetect, but only reported 8.5GB.  i was hoping
>> the upgraded bios would be able to see all of it.  problem still though is
>> that i can't get into bios any more.
>>
>> has any one else failed a bios upgrade?  does the system even boot to show
>> the initial information - bios version, ram amount, etc?  or does it just
>> not respond?
>>
>> On 7/18/07, rogerb@bronord.com <rogerb@bronord.com > wrote:
>> >
>> > In bios, is there an option to use LBA rather than just autodetect? If
>> > so, try
>> > that. It also sounds like you should be sure to put the linux boot
>> > partition
>> > towards the beginning of the drive if you are dual booting - to be sure
>> > that
>> > you can boot. If the bios is not seeing some sectors, you would not be
>> > able to
>> > boot.
>> > --
>> > Roger W. Broseus
>> >   NEW Email: RogerB@bronord.com
>> >   NEW Web Site: www.bronord.com
>> >
>> > > I'm wanted to install Ubuntu ( 7.04, Desktop-i386) on a Gateway 2500
>> > solo for
>> > > my brother to get into linux.  The laptop needed some new hardware, so
>> > I
>> > > went out and bought a 40GB HDD and two sticks of 128MB RAM.  BIOS saw
>> > the
>> > > RAM fine, but the HDD was only seen as 8.5GB.
>> > >
>> > > I figured I would check on updated BIOS for this laptop.  The latest
>> > one I
>> > > found was from 2000.  I followed the directions and everything
>> > appeared to
>> > > go cleanly; no errors were given during the update procedure.  Once
>> > > rebooted, I was able to enter BIOS for the laptop and when to
>> > configure
>> > > everything up.  I clicked on the "autodetect" for the harddrive and it
>> > > froze.  I powered down and turned it back on and I get the BIOS
>> > version
>> > > number, the amount of RAM and right where it should be detecting the
>> > > harddrive and dvd drive, it does nothing.  I hit F2 to enter bios but
>> > > nothing.  Is this laptop now (even more so) a paperweight?
>> > >
>> > > I'm guessing the next thing to try is clearing CMOS but I'm not sure
>> > that
>> > > would even do anything since I really never got the chance to
>> > configure
>> > > anything in the updated BIOS anyways.  Any suggestions?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks.
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