Re: Unable to use Ubuntu 8.04 live CD

On 08/03/2008 08:49 AM, Jerry Alber wrote:
NoOp wrote:
On 08/02/2008 08:07 PM, NoOp wrote:


Quick question: how did you check /etc/shadow without being able to
login and entering a password? Even in the tty you'd need to login and
enter a UID & password.





One other questiuon/point: you mentioned
<quote>
I downloaded Ubuntu 8.04.1 Alternate and burned the image. MD5sums all
checked out as did the CD. I installed it which was in the graphics mode
- fine with me.
</quote>

there is no "graphics" mode on the Alternate CD - only: Normal, OEM
install, Install a command-line system, Install an LTSP server. The
normal and OEM modes do use very limited graphic (DOS style) screens,
but nothing like a liveCD install. Can you clarify what you mean by
"graphics mode"?



NoOp,

Sorry about the "graphics" bit. I woke up in the middle of the night
thinking that I said graphics when I meant to say text. It was in the
text mode not the graphics mode that I entered all of my information.

I got to /etc/shadow by mounting the partition from Fedora 8 which is
working. I also looked at lspci and could see that Ubuntu did see the
graphics card.

I will try a clean install doing what you suggested with F6.

Jerry




That still doesn't sound right. It still sounds as if there is a
keyboard issue somewhere that is not working - hence you always ending
back up with a login screen. I don't recall, is your keyboard USB or PS/2?

If it is a keyboard issue, I recently had a problem with a dell usb
keyboard when doing an install. The thing just wasn't taking the UID/PW
properly. I finally switched the BIOS settings to legacy USB support,
moved the keyboard to a back USB port and then it worked.
You might try to enable legacy USB Keyboard in your CMOS settings and
see if that works (or vs vs). Other alternatives are to unplug the
keyboard, wait a few seconds and plug it back in.
I recall that there are a few issues regarding this but don't have
them handy at the moment.







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