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Re: Installation on Intel Core i7



On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:17:11AM +0800, Timothy Wu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The same horizontal bar appears when successfully booting the Ubuntu live
> >> CD, though it quickly disappeared. My guess is that it's part of the
> >> normal
> >> booting process.
> >>
> >> Oh yeah, this is an important detail: grub which was installed on MBR
> >> didn't
> >> even appear. It seemed to get stuck right after the self tests. I am not
> >> sure what version of kernel, but I downloaded from AMD64 version of Ubuntu
> >> and Debian just today.
> >>
> >
> > Maybe your BIOS is configured to look at the wrong HDD.   That's a very
> > easy mistake to make, especially if all your drives are the same make/model.
> 
> 
> Do you mean in the boot sequence? All three disks are in the boot sequence.

Make sure that you don't have any USB drives plugged in that could hijack the
boot sequence.  I've been caught off-guard by that one before.

Cheers,

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Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator
Federation of Students
University of Waterloo
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