[Bug 1352523] Re: Ubuntu 14.04 i386 will not boot on Dell Dimension 4600

[taylorkh]

By way of additional testing I did a clean install of Lubuntu 14.04.  It
would not boot after the install. I then booted the PC from the Debian
Wheezy live DVD.  I then installed grub2 from Debian to the Lubuntu hard
drive. It will now boot Lubuntu.

I did observe during the Lubutu boot process that the monitor displayed
a message "OUT OF RANGE". The old monitor is of limited frequency and
resolution range and I have observed this before.  I did not get the
grub menu. However, the boot process continued successfully.

The PC has an nVidia GeForce 6200 card. I have read of some issues with
Ubuntu and nVidia cards. I am not sure why this should be an issue with
the grub boot process as there is no reason for fancy graphics for a
text based boot menu.

Please advise if I can provide any additional information or perform
some additional testing in support of the efforts to investigate this
bug.

Thanks,

Ken

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Title:
  Ubuntu 14.04 i386 will not boot on Dell Dimension 4600

Status in “grub2” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Recently I tried to install Mint 17 Mate (based on Ubuntu 14.04) on my
  trusty old Dell test PC. The OS worked from the CD and the install
  seemed to go fine. However, when I did the first reboot I only got as
  far as the grub menu. At that point the machine was totally
  unresponsive. Not even Ctrl-Alt-Del was recognized. So I then did a
  clean install of Ubuntu 14.04. Same thing. I have also tried Lubuntu
  14.04. It does not work. I have two of these PCs and they have run
  Ubuntu from 6.something through 12.04 with no issues. I think I tried
  13.something on the test one - not sure and I do not recall the
  results.

  I reinstalled grub onto the Ubuntu 14.04 system from the live CD. No
  improvement.

  I installed Fedora 20 Mate along side the non-functional Ubuntu 14.04
  install and I can now boot either one! I have observed that Ubuntu
  14.04. Lubuntu 14.04 and Mate 17 use GNU GRUB version 2.02~beta2-9
  according to the grub menu. Fedora uses grub 2-2.00.25.fc20.i686.
  Smells like an issue with the Ubuntu version of grub to me.

  For my next trick I did a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04. As expected
  it did not work. I then did an install of Lubuntu along side of the
  Ubuntu install. Again, both showed on the grub menu but the machine
  was frozen at that point. Considering that Ubuntu is based on Debian I
  installed Debian Wheezy alongside the other two operating systems. I
  can now boot to any of the three. The version of grub used by Debian
  is GNU GRUB version 1.99-27+deb7u.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: grub (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Aug  4 15:14:34 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-04 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
  SourcePackage: grub
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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