{"id":36,"date":"2008-02-22T15:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brandonking.net\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-07-09T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T22:00:14","slug":"dell-vostro-400-ubuntukubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/dell-vostro-400-ubuntukubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Vostro 400 &#8211; Ubuntu\/Kubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to get a Dell Vostro 400 to work with Kubuntu 8.4 Alpha 4 LiveCD. I used the installer and it resized the Windows XP partition just fine&#8230; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">What I did to get this to work is written below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okay, SATA cdroms and Linux don&#8217;t seem to be mixing very well&#8230; at least not with Ubuntu\/Kubuntu 7.10. If you pop in one of the live cds, it will likely give you an IO Error when you select any item on the live cd boot menu.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, that problem is fixed in Ubuntu\/Kubuntu 8.4&#8230; but it&#8217;s not out yet being Feb 22nd (Release date scheduled for April). But, the live cd works with 8.4 Alpha 4 (looks like Alpha 5 came out today), which can be found here: https:\/\/wiki.kubuntu.org\/HardyHeron\/.<\/p>\n<p>When I booted the live cd, the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">screen went blank<\/span>&#8230; The next time I booted off the live cd, I choose<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> F6, and removed &#8220;quiet splash&#8221;<\/span> from the kernel arguments.<\/p>\n<p>At some point you might run into an error like:<\/p>\n<pre>Feb 22 21:55:19 localhost ata2: failed to recover some devices, retrying in 5 secs<\/pre>\n<p>If this happens add the kernel argument <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">irqpoll<\/span> and it should bypass\/fix the problem (not sure which; it just worked).<\/p>\n<p>To add the irqpoll option in the live cd:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Select F6<\/li>\n<li>Remove &#8220;quite splash&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Add &#8220;irqpoll&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To add the irqpoll option to grub (once installed):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Replace <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"># defoptions=quiet splash<\/span> with<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> # defoptions=irqpoll<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I am in a bit of a hurry during this post today, so if you have any questions or would like me to expand on something, just post a comment.<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to get a Dell Vostro 400 to work with Kubuntu 8.4 Alpha 4 LiveCD. I used the installer and it resized the Windows XP partition just fine&#8230; What I did to get this to work is written below: Okay, SATA cdroms and Linux don&#8217;t seem to be mixing very well&#8230; at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4,10],"tags":[40,91,41,62],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers_it","category-error-fixes","category-linux-it","category-sysadmin","tag-kernel","tag-linux-it","tag-livecd","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonking.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}