I had a similar problem a while ago, my computer would not boot past the
POST screen after installing Linux. I eventually narrowed down the problem
to the computer would not boot with a gpt partition table on any of the
drives.
One thing you might want to do is upgrade the bios.
On Oct 17, 2012 1:03 PM, "Sean Gibbins" <sean@???> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I got it into my head to install Ubuntu 12.04 Server AMD64 on machine I
> ciobbled together from an ASRock A330GC mini-itx motherboard, 2GB Kingston
> RAM, a 500GB Samsung SATA hard drive and a Lian Li mini-itx case.
>
> Before I go on, it's possibly worth mentioning that all of this kit ran
> Ubuntu 10.04 Server quite happily some time ago, before being disassembled
> and put away in the loft.
>
> Anyway, I reassembled to machine, downloaded the binaries and fired up the
> install, which went along merrily until it was time to reboot, after which
> the machine wouldn't POST. This wasn't immediately obvious because of the
> ASRock splash screen, but after a while I managed to get past that to the
> boot messages, which revealed that the machine would hang immediately after
> it posted a message about the first hard drive and its S.M.A.R.T. status
> (disabled).
>
> Puzzled I looked into the BIOS to see if there was anything set in there
> that was upsetting it, but no changes to how it saw the hard drive made any
> difference.
>
> After that I tried another similar Samsung hard drive with a fresh
> install, some different SATA cables and even a different power supply, all
> to no avail.
>
> In fact, the only way I could get the machine to boot was to remove the
> hard drive and then boot off a USB stick using the original install media
> or, latterly, Puppy Linux.
>
> That was yesterday. After sleeping on it I decided delete all of the
> partitions on the hard drive and retry. The machine booted (using Puppy
> again) and the hard drive was visible once more. For laughs I decided to
> try 'something else', which in this case happened to be Debian 6.0.6 AMD64
> xfce+lxde, which installed, rebooted and is playing nice in the dining room
> as I type.
>
> Since I ideally wanted Ubuntu Server on there I am tempted to get hold of
> 10.04 and try that again, then dist-upgrade it to see if it introduces the
> same issue.
>
> Failing that I am happy to bung Debian on there, but before I do anything
> I'd be interested to hear any thoughts on this.
>
> Sean
>
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