[UNSOLVED] Linux failed for the first time

Question

Xubuntu

Good day, I’ll tell you in order, there was a need to install a light, friendly linux on a weak computer, the choice fell on xubuntu, BUT what happened happened ...

Computer configuration:
Mother - Asrock Prescott 800 G4i65GV
RAM - DDR I (256 + 128) - total more than enough, I think
CPU - intel Pentium 2.4
HDD - 80+60 (samsung ATA)

Problem: I install Xubuntu 10.04.2 (by the way, I tried it and just ubuntu, it didn’t work either) from a flash drive, I made the flash drive with a standard usb-creator on a working machine. During the installation, everything is installed, it works, I break the screw into partitions, the installation goes through, naturally at the end it turns out that everything is fine with you, you can use ubuntu, BUT after rebooting, everything stops at the definition of the screw by the BIOS, and even does not enter the BIOS later. You cut off the hard everything is fine again.
I checked everything, RAM, percent, mother, cable, tried to put it on one screw, then on another. Boot Live from a flash drive, it works great.
The most interesting thing is that you insert this screw into another computer, everything is loaded calmly. You put it back in, everything freezes at the very beginning.
And the worst thing, Windows XP - installed, loaded and started normally!!!
Question: What's wrong? The older distribution was not with me to check. I beg your help - this is already a sporting interest !!!

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Check disk geometry. In particular, the indentation of the first partition from the beginning of the disk.

Answer 2

this does not mean that Linux failed, but that the bios of asrock motherboards works so amazingly. about the geometry of the disk, the dear gentleman above is most likely right - you can try to mark the disks with Windows, and then put ubuntu on this markup

Answer 3

I had a similar experience if I exit Windows using sleep mode (hibernation).

Answer 4

And I met with the same. There was a similar machine, only the percentage is weaker. Debian worked on 5, Ubuntu 9.10 didn't. Symptoms, unfortunately, I do not remember, but something similar to a subject.
By the way, now Ubuntu 10.04 is eating 550 meters of RAM (I confess, maleho is dirty).
And yet, when I installed hard on a new computer 9.10, it was also ATA and, oddly enough, she did not want to work with it - the installation reached somewhere up to 3/4 and hung, it was installed on SATA without problems. Maybe there is some kind of pattern, or maybe a 5-6-year-old hard has died ...

Answer 5

Try moving /boot to a separate partition at the beginning of the disk

Answer 6

1. Remove one of the memory modules. Try first with one, then with another.
2. In the BIOS, set the default chipset settings.

Answer 7

99% that the problem is with the mother. To begin with, I would play around with the BIOS versions, update to a more recent one (if any) and or to an older one (it definitely exists). If the disks are ATA, how are the jumpers. auto or forced master/slave? What ATA cable? There were mothers who normally worked only with their own cable (which came with the mother) and disks with a cable select jumper.