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When i tried out the 12.04 beta on my HP Microserver, installation went smoothly. However when booting up the installed system, all i'd get is a blank screen. T
by jamesu 14y ago
When i tried out the 12.04 beta on my HP Microserver, installation went smoothly. However when booting up the installed system, all i'd get is a blank screen. Turns out for some odd reason it doesn't set the textmode display correctly, so you need to add a cryptic line to the boot options to see anything. Upon doing this, i found it was throwing a fit at a degraded raid array on a disk i happened to have plugged in at the time, and so wouldn't continue booting until i entered the emergency console and typed exit.
Certainly not the distro i'm looking for.
- Karunamon 14y agoYou regularly boot with degraded RAID arrays plugged in? I'd want my system to drop everything on possibility of data loss - would seem to make sense.
- jamesu 14y agoIn this case i was using the machine as network storage, with the RAID1 array being part of a backup. The main system was on a separate disk, so the RAID was in no way required for booting up. In fact, i never explicitly set it up during installation. Not only could i not see what was going on, i couldn't even access the machine from the network. All for no good reason.