[Bug 985066] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 beta2 installer fails when copying files

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi,

Hope this epic is of use to someone...

Using the same ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso, I put the image on a USB
memory stick. I then booted a Dell Optiplex GX-280 PC that I had lying
around. It installed from USB memory stick flawlessly. Lovely.

My generic PC (hostname rutherford) can't boot from memory stick. And if I
use a CDR then installation fails. BTW while watching the Dell PC boot from
memory stick, I noticed that it got as far as a "Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04
LTS" message and continued OK. rutherford, OTOH would fail just before that.

I now need to get a DVDRW drive for my old Dell so I can burn the iso onto
a DVDR disk and see if rutherford will install 12.04 successfully from that,

HTH,


Ian

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Title:
  Ubuntu 12.04 beta2 installer fails when copying files

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  This bug was found on a generic 1.3GHz Celeron PC with 512MB RAM using
  an Ubuntu 12.04 beta CDR. It used to be my main PC - it worked OK then
  and worked with earlier releases of Ubuntu Linux.

  When installing this version of Linux, the installer comes to a halt
  with this message:-

  Installer failed.
  The installer encountered an unrecoverable error. A desktop session will now be run so that you may investigate the problem or try installing again.

  Story so far:-
  * Took 2 attempts to burn the CDR (1st disk was a cheap disk, 2nd was a Samsung disk).
  * 1st attempt to install got the above mentioned error message.
  * Rebooted and used the option to check the files on the CDR were OK. Test passed successfully.
  * Tried install - same result as the first attempt.
  * Rebooted & used the memtest86 option. Test passed successfully.

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