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[Bug 1212977] Re: saucy daily-live images are unbootable on Dell Optiplex 990; stuck in BusyBox shell

 

Reply to #49

For complete cover and knowing there was a 'beta' BIOS update 'F7a' for
my board and I have just done that update. Gigagytes inbuilt QFlash is
great - No boot disks or Windows required.  ;-)

Tested and get the same issue. The board I have which is a Gigabyte GA-
97a-DS3 Rev: 1.0.

http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4122&dl=1#bios

This is not UEFI but is hybrid EFI. The tests I have just run were with
EFI in all it's setting states i.e. in 'Auto', 'NON-EFI' and 'EFI'. The
result is the same failure with todays live 13.10 ISO.

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Title:
  saucy daily-live images are unbootable on Dell Optiplex 990; stuck in
  BusyBox shell

Status in “casper” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “casper” source package in Saucy:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux” source package in Saucy:
  Confirmed
Status in “udev” source package in Saucy:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  saucy daily-live images are unbootable on Dell Optiplex 990. I just get a BusyBox shell.
  I have tried the latest live images for the past few days without any luck. And the bug persists regardless of which graphics card (or none) I have in.

  Tried at least:
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130814/
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20130815/

  and the Optiplex 990 cannot boot them.

  Interestingly, the same USB images do boot successfully on a Thinkpad X220.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  dan        2083 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=9e3dac8a-8fa4-4da5-b4d2-52b2ee5fd022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-03 (76 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  IwConfig:
   eth0      no wireless extensions.
   
   lo        no wireless extensions.
  MachineType: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 990
  MarkForUpload: True
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-25-generic root=UUID=416f5f80-6d98-4208-a3f5-ef272b12e5c6 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.8.0-25-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.8.0-25-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.106
  RfKill:
   
  Tags:  raring
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  dmi.bios.date: 09/10/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A07
  dmi.board.name: 0D6H9T
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A00
  dmi.chassis.type: 15
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA07:bd09/10/2011:svnDellInc.:pnOptiPlex990:pvr01:rvnDellInc.:rn0D6H9T:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct15:cvr:
  dmi.product.name: OptiPlex 990
  dmi.product.version: 01
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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