Multiple distros + Wubi will not boot on desktop, hardware issues?

Weasel War Dance · 04-27-2012, 10:20 AM

Hello all. I have tried Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu 11.10 & 12.04, Zenwalk, Slackware, Mint, and Salix on my desktop. Not a single distro has been able to boot on my machine. For the record, I do have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed and running very smoothly. So I fear this is a hardware detection problem with Linux. Here are my specs:

Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth P67 LGA 1155 SATA 6Gbps
http://www.amazon.com/SABERTOOTH-P67...5538969&sr=8-3

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600 @ 3.4GHz
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-i7-2600-...5539049&sr=1-2

GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 550 Ti FPB 1024 MB GDDR5
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-M...5539115&sr=1-1

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3 (2x4GB)
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengea...5539172&sr=1-3

Optical Drive: Samsung Blu-Ray 12x BD-ROM
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-12XRea...5539320&sr=1-1

PSU: Corsair TX750W, Series 80
http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-CMPSU-...5539677&sr=1-1

Case: Cooler Master HAF ATX Mid Tower
http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-...5539441&sr=1-4

I have tried both Live CDs and install CD/DVDs to no avail. Windows installed with no issues, but I did first try Linux before Windows was even on the drive. By all means, if you are needing more information, please say so and I will try my best to supply you with it. If there is any component here that sticks out as potentially being the trouble-maker, I would greatly appreciate the help. Thank you in advance.

TobiSGD · 04-28-2012, 05:29 AM

What exactly do you mean with "not able to boot", please be more specific. At which stage of the boot time occurs the problem, what exactly is happening. Please use a distro that has no fancy bootscreen for determining this, so that you can see the actual boot messages.
From a hardware point of view, there is nothing special with your machine, so we really need more information on what exactly happens when you try to boot.

Weasel War Dance · 04-29-2012, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

What exactly do you mean with "not able to boot", please be more specific. At which stage of the boot time occurs the problem, what exactly is happening. Please use a distro that has no fancy bootscreen for determining this, so that you can see the actual boot messages.
From a hardware point of view, there is nothing special with your machine, so we really need more information on what exactly happens when you try to boot.

I tried Mint 12 Xfce again, as I remembered it gave some messages before freezing. Here is what was last on the screen before it froze:

Code:

input1
[ 2.898938] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 2.899014] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.973432] ata 10.00: ATA-8: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0, 51,0AB51, max UDMA/133
[ 2.973518] ata10.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), A A
[ 2.979842] input: Primax Kensington Eagle Trackball as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1.2/2-1.2:1.0/input/input4
[ 2.980002] generic-usb 0003:047D:2048.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Primax Kensington Eagle Trackball] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2/input0
[ 3.008158] ata10.00: configured for UDMA/133
[ 3.008311] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD20EARS-00M 51.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 3.008469] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 3.008471] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
[ 3.008473] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-bye physical blocks
[ 3.008514] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 3.008516] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 
[ 3.008530] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 3.026635] sdb: sdb1 sdb2
[ 3.026909] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 3.051534] usb 2-1.4: new high speed USB device number 5 using echi_hcd

I hope this helps.