[PLUG] New computer

[Tomas K]

For what it is wort it 42.2 will not boot your new HW, you either
install 42.3 or do not waste your time. I know, I have tried that on
the same CPU and chipset before.

I am not trying to start any flame wars, I just do not know much about
this deep into Ubuntu - 42.3 has backported your CPU and chipset
features - that is probably why it booted, installed and worked while
the other distros, do not out of the box.

At this point, I would just try to replicate what we did and what
worked - and that was opensuse 42.3. Opensuse works regardless of the
secure boot enabled/disabled as it is properly signed by MS, so UEFI
trusts it.

Anyway, good luck, time to start a log book, so that you can remember
what you tried and how.

Tomas

On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 22:36 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:37:29 -0800
> Tomas <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> dijo:
> 
> > 
> > If this is still relevant, unresolved, understanding you Ubuntu or
> > whatever the distro you want as requirement.
> 
> Still unresolved. Ultimately I want Xubuntu 18.04, but since it is
> not
> released yet my current plan is to install 17.10 and then do a
> dist-upgrade in a couple months. But right now I just want to get
> *something* that will boot.
> 
> The OpenSUSE that you installed will not boot. It starts, and then
> hangs. I burned the ISO to a DVD and tried to use it to reinstall. It
> got as far as 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 installation programv5.0.87
> starting udev...
> And then it hangs.
> For the version you installed there are other options, including a
> recovery mode. I tried it but it hung on:
> 32.9125001 ata10.00: status: { DRDY }
> 32.9125091 ata10: hard resetting link
> 
> I have also tried Xubuntu 17.10, 17.04, 16.04, and they all hang.
> 
> I tried Knoppix 7.7 and it starts, but then hangs on 'Starting
> dbus...'
> 
> > 
> > Try to walk through this list in order:
> > 1. Is your bios up to date? If not, update it first.
> >    That often helps with new shiny things PC.
> 
> The BIOS has a flash utility that will go out to the internet and
> flash
> the BIOS. I used it and t finished saying '"The BIOS is up to date."
> But it made no difference, still can't get anything to boot.
> 
> > 
> > 2. Unless you have done something to the bios settings, boot
> >    priorities or started another installation, you should be
> >    able to get the openSuse installation going.
> 
> It hangs. See above comment.
> 
> > 
> >    - I would walk back the bios changes you might have made
> >    and get that going for piece of mind and to become familiar
> >    with the bios settings - particularly related to UEFI and
> >    various legacy settings.
> >    It is not given that disabling UEFI makes magically things work.
> >    These days UEFI is more reliable than disabling it because
> >    MS Win needs it, and needs it in locked down state.
> >    - UEFI typically depends on number of bios settings - and often
> >    the PC does not boot until the only combination is right.
> >    - You can always use the "Reset CMOS" jumper to set BIOS to
> >    defaults, if there is no Bios way resetting it to defaults.
> 
> This computer will never boot any version of Windows, so that is
> irrelevant.  
> Your comment about resetting the BIOS is something I had not yet
> tried,
> so just now I did it. And I know it was successful because I got a
> different start screen. But I still can't get anything to boot.
> 
> > 
> > 3. Another thing is to try, after you are back to default bios
> >    settings would be to choose the SSD as boot in the boot menu
> > (F11).
> >    Bios sometimes sets the last used boot device as default for
> >    the next boot.
> 
> This BIOS has an option to get the list of drives and what is on them
> by pressing F11 when it boots. I can select either optical drive or
> the
> SSD, and the SSD shows OpenSUSE twice - once as 'secure boot' and the
> other blank. No matter, neither will boot. If there is a bootable USB
> stick that will also appear in the list. 
> 
> > 
> > 4. Failing all the above, try to make yourself opensuse 42.3 usb
> > boot
> >    stick. It just worked, so the chances are that it will just work
> >    again. It would not achieve your favorite distro setup, but it
> >    could take you to the right track and turn the brick to useful
> >    device until you have new Ubuntu in a few months.
> 
> I already tried that, except I burned it to a DVD because I'm running
> out of USB sticks. And I used 42.2 because I already had it
> downloaded.
> It hangs like everything else.
> 
> There is a glimmer of hope: You installed Leap 42.3, so it must have
> booted from your USB stick. As far as I know that is the only time
> when
> any distro has actually booted. Somehow I need to get back to the
> state
> it was in when you did that, but clearing the CMOS didn't do it. 
> 
> It's my bedtime. Maybe in the morning I'll think of something else.
> In
> the meantime, thanks for the suggestions. 
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