I decided to give it another spin after an absence of a couple of years, Now I can not get the darn thing to install. Both installer CD and USB will stall and never load the install options or the installer GUI. I tried the last three three releases back to 14.04. All the install media works fine in Virtual Box within Windows and I can complete the install. Im not really looking for answers to get this running but maybe some insight on why and to rant and describe that its still not ready for prime time at this stage if they still can not get a installer that works 100%. The hardware on the system was a Intel H77 board with a Ivy I5, GTX960 and Intel 330 SSD, I had secure boot disabled and could initiate the install Ubuntu from the CD load screen but would stall after a now loading message from the command line.
Check the MD5. That doesn't sound right. I didn't have the issue when I took it for a spin in April.
The MD 5 sums where all good for 14.04,14.10,15.04 I have successfully installed it on this platform minus the GTX 960 a couple years back when I put this thing together,
You need to watch this:
For once it may not be Canonicals fault.
Yea I have concluded that the 960 is the issue. I could probably jump through some hoops after enough google reading and get it installed. But how many more hoops do i need to jump through to get it working for Steam gaming that was my primary interest, O well maybe next year.
I had something similar booting off a usb gave me a blank screen where it should have had the boot options. I poked at the keyboard and hitting enter got things moving again. Everything after that went swimmingly that was the only hitch I had. That was annoying and I didn't get a chance to find out why. I think it was H76 chipset.
GTX 960 owner here running Ubuntu 14.04, 14.10, 15.04 without any issues.
check sums were fine.
No, all the problems I ran into are known bugs that have not been fixed yet.
The graphics drivers and steam is what I had the biggest problems with, and the reality is that they should have not been a problem at all.
Steam is easy to install on mint 17. There should be no reason for any issues with ubuntu 15.04 and yet I had to jump through a few hoops to get ubuntu to install the correct 32bit dependencies.
Same thing with the mesa driver. I forgot what version I had out of the box but it was basically old as dirt. I was hoping to see mesa 10.5 or some really late version of 10.4, but no.
The other thing that was really bizarre was that the whole os would sometimes just lock up completely. The cursor would move, but everything would freeze up for a good 3-5 minutes.
I mean I eventually worked through all the problems and got the system working, but everything I had dealt with seems to have been a reported bug that has not been dealt with yet.
I reinstalled opensuse tumbleweed with a bunch of unstable packages and I am having less issues with this than I was with a supposedly stable system.
How did you do it ?
install it via the IGPU. Dont have the 960 in the system. Then, install the Nvidia Drivers and stick the 960 back in. Or make the IGPU default in BIOS and Swap back when installed.
The whole switching to IGPU in the bios seem like a easy solutions to get things rolling. Now where did I toss those install CD's.
I didn't do anything different from what a regular install would look like.
but not every machine config is identical. Yours may have worked for a different reason.
Not sure why no one has given you the solution. Nvidia hates you, add nomodeset to the boot options. This almost always fixes graphics issues with nvidia during install and first boot until you fix the drivers. Ubuntu install has always got this wrong, no idea why.
I agree, you may have better chances with Fedora 21/22.
I second that...I had the same issue with Nvidia and in other distros as well. If you add the nomodeset option it almost always works.
Thank you both nomodeset tip. I did get Ubuntu 14.04 installed and updated to Nvidia proprietary driver. I am now running into the occasional game crash in Steam but I will deal with that issue next week when I get another set of days off. Thanks for the input from every one of you that posted.