I built a new desktop and I want to test out my hardware and see how Ubuntu is running out of the box with my hardware selection. Here's the quick rundown on the hardware I'm working with.
I'll try to make this as clear as possible. I have multiple flash drives with different OSes setup so I can try LiveCD's and test hardware on the fly. I attempted to throw one of my trusty old Ubuntu-LiveUSB drives and when I tried to boot my system POSTs, then gives just a simple "Boot Error" message after selecting my boot device.
I thought, maybe this drive got corrupted, so I tried a few other drives I had laying around. The system gave the same results with an older Linux Mint build. I figured maybe the new hardware wasn't supported correctly on these older builds or maybe it was the configuration or something. Then, I grabbed two new images of Ubuntu(12.04 x64) and Mint(version 14 w/MATE x64). Overwrote both drives with Unetbootin and tried again. Bang. Same results.
For laughs, I threw a random LiveUSB install of Ubuntu Server 11.10 that never got upgraded in and to my surprise, it worked! I'd rather have a GUI and more "traditional" desktop setup here, so this proved a point, but not the one I was looking for.
What am I doing wrong? Again, this is a prestine build, all hardware has been tested and is working(had to return a few parts after some tested bad originally). I smacked an HDD from another box I had laying around with Linux Mint on it and the system was in working order(minus some drivers and all, but the builds are EXTREMELY different, so I expected that). There has to be a simple fix for this...
Thanks in advance!
- AMD FX-4100 Black Edition
- Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P Motherboard
- 8GB Crucial Vengenance RAM(single DIMM)
- XFX Radeon 6450 Core Edition
- No HDD at the moment
I'll try to make this as clear as possible. I have multiple flash drives with different OSes setup so I can try LiveCD's and test hardware on the fly. I attempted to throw one of my trusty old Ubuntu-LiveUSB drives and when I tried to boot my system POSTs, then gives just a simple "Boot Error" message after selecting my boot device.
I thought, maybe this drive got corrupted, so I tried a few other drives I had laying around. The system gave the same results with an older Linux Mint build. I figured maybe the new hardware wasn't supported correctly on these older builds or maybe it was the configuration or something. Then, I grabbed two new images of Ubuntu(12.04 x64) and Mint(version 14 w/MATE x64). Overwrote both drives with Unetbootin and tried again. Bang. Same results.
For laughs, I threw a random LiveUSB install of Ubuntu Server 11.10 that never got upgraded in and to my surprise, it worked! I'd rather have a GUI and more "traditional" desktop setup here, so this proved a point, but not the one I was looking for.
What am I doing wrong? Again, this is a prestine build, all hardware has been tested and is working(had to return a few parts after some tested bad originally). I smacked an HDD from another box I had laying around with Linux Mint on it and the system was in working order(minus some drivers and all, but the builds are EXTREMELY different, so I expected that). There has to be a simple fix for this...
Thanks in advance!