General :: Ubuntu Reboots While Installing?
Feb 15, 2011
I've been trying to get Ubuntu on my computer for months now and after having googled no relevant cases which may help me I would like some help.
I am trying to install Ubuntu on my computer (which already has windows and I don't want to lose it yet)
I have already burnt 3 CDs yet the problem is the same each time, that's why I believe the problem does not come from the burning. I checked the md5sum and there was no problem.
However when I try to install Ubuntu (or sometimes during a live session) after partitionning my computer and selecting mounting points, having "format" checked on the concerned partitions, the installation goes halfway through the "copying files" process and my computer simply reboots. More precisely, in the middle of installation the screen is replaced with the loading page of Ubuntu (like when you start with the live CD) then my computer reboots, no questions asked (not even to remove the CD, it reboots with the CD in it... while during a manual shutdown it would open the tray and ask you to close it)
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Aug 1, 2009
I'm struggling a bit to install F11 on my laptop. When I put in the cd, i get to the menu. I elect to boot into the live cd, then my pc reboots and the menu comes up again...
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Aug 24, 2010
I just installed Fedora 13 on an HP Z400, and it's stuck in an endless reboot loop (lives 2 seconds before rebooting). It's a 64-bit machine and seems to meet all the hardware requirements.
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Jun 30, 2011
I want to boot the 'Finnix' distro from a usb. I have unetbootin which can set it up on the usb, but it can't allow me to preserve files after rebooting. Is there anyway to do this, maybe do it manually or use another software to install it on the usb?
For ubuntu there is no problem getting files to be preserved after reboots..
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Jan 28, 2010
I am fairly new to linux.We have a machine running CentOS 4.4 and sometimes the machine has to be rebooted. Each time after the reboot, I have to SSH in and manually restart one of our application. I have been reading about doing this online and I am a little confuse.Seems like there are multiple possibilities for starting things up. My finding suggest using the inittab file. Then my question is what runlevel do I pass in? Should I use runlevel 1, 2, 3, or 5? Once the runlevel is determine, then how should I name my startup script? I know to use "S" but what number should I give it? Or, another way to approach this is to put my autostart script in the /etc/rc.local file?
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Apr 21, 2010
I have a pool of approximately 1,000 Linux servers and I would like to get a total count of reboots that occurred on those servers each month. I would like to collect this reboot count at the end of each month. Can anyone tell me what the best way to get this count.
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Jun 4, 2010
If I issue a shutdown -rF now, it will force e2fsck's on all the volumes when it reboots. But once the checks automatically finish, does it restart normally? I want to run e2fsck's on all my volumes, but dont want to stay the probably 5 hours it will run, so hoping someone knows for sure what happens.
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May 23, 2011
unclean shutdowns/reboots. Whenever I boot/restart, I notice the message "/dev/hdb1 (and hdb2) was not cleanly unmounted, check forced." Then fsck(?) scans them without errors, and everything continues normally. FWIW, hdb1 @ hdb2 are ext2, /boot & /tmp respectively, whereas all other partitions are ext3. Could that (ext2) be why? I checked halt, reboot, umountfs, umountnfs.sh, and umountroot in /etc/init.d, and nothing jumped out at me, though I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at/for.
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Jul 14, 2010
Linux Server automatically reboots when i plug in the network cable.it was working fine till 2 days back and no changes were made to it.any light on this note pls? kindly confirm if any logs are required for the discussion!
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Apr 17, 2009
I boot linux from a usb drive so I can carry my distro wherever I go - I've been doing it for quite some time now and it's always worked wonderfully. Problem: This morning my little cousin unplugged the computer WHILE I was booting into linux. Power loss has happened before, but with no ill effects. This time however, it's decided it won't boot. The screen clears, and just as GRUB is about to load, it freezes and the computer reboots over and over.
I booted to a LiveCD of Ubuntu to try and fsck the drive, but it won't mount the volume. I've worked with this install so long, and have customized it so much I **really** don't want to do a reinstall.. What can I do?
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Nov 15, 2010
I have a 10.10 machine where it has taken to refusing to logout of one specific user account. When I choose logout/restart/whatever from the possible options, it takes me to the main login screen (with the drums) and it shows thet that user is still logged in. The only way, once this occurs, to rid myself of this is to sign in as an administrator and run shutdown -r 00 under sudo. Then it reboots. (Using the admin account to choose restart/shutdown also returns me to the mail login screen where that unpriv'd user is still logged in.) (The machine is fully up to date.)
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Dec 2, 2009
I'm having an issue with a PC ( Gateway GT5220 ), with Ubuntu 64 bit 8.04 installed. There was Vista originally installed in it.
Now, every time I execute shutdown from GUI or command line, the PC reboots and never shuts down on its own, I have to keep pressed the power button for a few secs to power it off. It's very irritating and I don't know wether it's a Ubuntu or a BIOS issue.
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May 24, 2010
24" intel iMac , 4gb ram, fully updated.
I have installed amd64bit 10.04 for some reason the system will reboot without warning. I can not see any issues that point to any major problems in the logs.
All hardware appears to be working well although i have not yet tested the built in web cam.
Are there any extra debug log settings i can switch on to try and track down whats causing the reboot.
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Oct 11, 2010
Prior to this version of ubuntu my laptop (an old P4 gateway) shut down just fine. It acted fine in windows xp, and ubuntu 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04. Starting with my first shutdown after upgrading to maverick (as opposed to a fresh install, which is what I've done for every time I went to the new version before this), it just reboots the computer instead of shutting down.I've tried clicking the icon in the corner, I've tried pushing the power button and clicking shutdown on that screen, I've even tried shutting down from the command prompt, but each of these just reboots the computer.
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Nov 1, 2010
I am trying to write a script to add to crontab that I can use to auto update my system a couple times a week.I've done that much before, but I want to make the script a bit smarter about rebooting. Before I had it reboot after running the "apt-get upgrade" command, regardless of whether it needed to or not. Easy peesy stuff, just a sequential command using "&&".What I would like to know at this point is how I can have the script look to see if the reboot is even necessary. I am assuming there is something I can tell the script to look for in an if statement, but I'm not sure what or where. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this?
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Nov 10, 2010
I have Mevarick's problem with suspend. When i do suspend on SONY vaio fw31e screen goes black but when i press any key it won't suspend. It boots like i just turned it on.
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Dec 1, 2010
Everything was going great earlier today when suddenly, my PC on a fresh boot, gave me a message that said something like "Ubuntu is running on low graphics mode ..". It was running a low res, i think it was 640x480, and gave me some repair options like a. Boot in low res mode for just one session b. Trouble shoot this error etc..There were 3 more options but i don't remember what they were.
i chose "boot in low res just for this one session", but it gave me the same error the next boot. Then i tried troubleshooting, which didn't work (restoring to a backup config was no use). Then finally i rebooted and started Ubuntu in Recovery mode, and i did something like "Fix broken packages" because , from the list of options it seemed like the only one which would help at that time.
But now, whenever i choose the Ubuntu option after starting my PC, it just restarts my computer. My other OS is Windows 7 which boots just fine. Hope someone can help me with this . In the meanwhile i'll try making a new MBR or something.
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Feb 15, 2011
I downloaded and installed Ubuntu desktop on 9/26/10. Not sure what version that would be but that is my download date. Running a dual boot XP 32bit/Ubuntu 64bitNo problems at all so far and I've been keeping up with updates manager. Two days ago I went start my machine and chose Ubuntu from the OS selection screen as usual. The only thing that shows up on the next screen (grub menu I believe?) is "HD (0,0) NTFS5" for about 1.5 sec and then reboots.
Windows boots and runs fine. They are both installed on the same physical drive. Not sure what else to search for or include for information. I've tried searching the forums but not sure what nomenclature to use.Trying to avoid reinstalling. p.s. I knew I was enjoying Ubuntu but didn't realize how much until I was forced back to using just XP.
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Feb 17, 2011
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my computer from a USB. I did not use wubi to install ubuntu. The computer already had Windows 7 installed. According to gparted, Windows 7 is installed in sda1, linux swap space is in sda2. Then sda3 is shown as a drop down menu containing sda5, where linux is installed. A picture to show this is attached . sda4 is a recovery partition that came with the computer.
The problem is that Windows 7 sometimes boots, and sometimes it does not boot. Most of the times it does not. Ubuntu boots perfectly. The process to boot is the usual, turning on the computer, wait for grub to load. If I pick Windows, it goes to the splash screen (which is by the way not the usual windows 7 splash screen, it resembles more the vista splash screen, picture attached. I do not know the reason, and I have no idea if it has anything to do with the problem) About 80% of the time, it simply reboots a few seconds after the windows splash screen is shown. The reboot takes me back to the usual HP splash screen, then grub again. The other 20% of the time, it boots normally and works perfectly well.
Right after I installed ubuntu Windows was shown in grub as installed at sdb1. I updated grub and now it is shown as sda1. I already tried some grub custom entries for loading Windows differently, but they all present the same problem. Please do not discard a custom entry as a solution, as the source I used for these custom entries was not entirely trustable.
I also tried popping in the windows installation disk and trying a system repair, but apparently no errors were found.
Reinstalling grub using Ubuntu live cd (booted from a USB) did not work either...
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May 3, 2011
i just bought a new computer today and Ubuntu 11.04 reboots whenever i try to shut it down. Most of the time it just hangs there. I've tried to ALT+CTRL+F2 and shut down with the terminal there by "sudo poweroff" but the system freezes and hangs at that screen, not allowing me to see what's going on. If i leave it for 5 minutes or so in that state, it'll reboot. I've also tried Lubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu and they all have the same issue. I've tried their latest versions.
I've searched endlessly, i've messed with the BIOS settings and nothing. I've added "acpi=off" and "acpi=forced" and neither worked. The only way i can shut down my computer is by holding the physical power button.The computer is an HP P6710F. AMD Athlon II 640 x4 processor. ATI Radeon HD 4200 graphics card. 4GB of memory. 1TB of HDD space.
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Feb 17, 2010
I keep having issues at the main password screen. The computer starts, I click my login name, type password, start to hear the music, screen distorted, then reboot. Sometimes I have to do this up to 20 times before it finally logs in.
I am running a Biostar U8668-D Motherboard with 1gb ram. Video is onboard. I am not sure what type. I think it may be S3 Pro Savage.
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Apr 30, 2010
Since I know there's a lot of support threads going, I wouldn't ask unless I was really stumped and couldn't google. I'll get right to it.
10.04 fresh installed fine, working, few reboots, all good. Installed Nvidia 195 drivers. Not so good, still works fine, but framerates not as good as the 190 drivers I'd been using with karmic. So I installed nvidia-glx-190 and nvidia-190-modaliases with the nvidia PPA for jaunty. They didn't appear on the restricted drivers list, I rebooted in the hope they would, and now my boot process is as follows.
Boot, met with a blinking _
Goes blank
Another blinking _
Green static appears momentarily, then very fast the Ubuntu splash appears, the white orbs all turn orange, and there it hangs. The splash itself is in the wrong resolution.
Everything is the same as when it was working except it didn't totally freeze at the end. It responds to nothing except the power button (and sometimes not), I can't access a shell or the grub menu at any stage during the boot process like I usually would, and nothing in the boot log seems out of the ordinary.
What should I do? I'm on a LiveCD desktop, got the harddrive mounted.
Macbook pro 4,1, 2GB ram, Core2duo with Nvidia Geforce 8600GT
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May 8, 2010
This happened with 09.something and again with 10.04. When I plug in my Palm Centro smartphone, it starts endless rebooting. I solved it last time by removing modem-manager from /usr/bin.But that program didn't reappear through my upgrade.
Well, when I first upgraded, then plugged in my Palm through a USB cable, the phone rebooted. Then, I was able to sync to JPilot. Attempting the same thing later, the phone rebooted continuously.Today, I seem to be able to sync again.
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May 9, 2010
Whenever I select windows 7 from grub it will boot up to the splash screen and then restart.I do NOT have a repair cd.
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May 14, 2010
when I select Vista/Longhorn from my grub list, it shows a black screen, then shows GRUB again. I recently had to reset my menu.lst, so I'm not sure if the settings for the windows option are correct. This is my /boot/grub/menu.lst:
Code:
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
[code]....
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Jun 15, 2010
I was wondering if there was a script that would run on log in telling me the history of when the server was rebooted or such, along with the last user and motd (which is a roflcopter in my case)
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Sep 23, 2010
I'm trying to install Ubuntu 8.04 on my pc but every time I select an option to install from the cd, the pc reboots and I go through the same thing again.
I've tried installing within windows but that just installs a folder with Ubuntu in but I can't start Ubuntu up when it's finished installing?
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Dec 7, 2010
I've been googling my brains out looking for a solution to this. So far, nothing.
As the title suggests, every time I attempt to shut the computer down it instantly reboots the moment the internal fans stop whirring.
So far I've tried:
-shutting down via the terminal (this actually makes the reboot happen instantly rather than waiting for the fans to stop)
-looking in the BIOS for any obvious settings which may be causing this
-performing a dpkg repair
-Allowing "Proposed" updates in the Updater
-installing (slightly) older Kernel (2.6.35-22 as opposed to 2.6.35-23)
-installing newer (2.6.36) kernel
I know others are having this issue, but other threads I've read seem to have fizzled out with no conclusion. Has anyone managed to find a way to make this work if they've had the bug?
Any advice at all? Is it worth trying an even older kernel? Or an even older version of Linux?
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Feb 20, 2011
I've installed Ubuntu inside Windows 7 with the Ubuntu Windows installer. I have previously had problems with booting Ubuntu, but it always got to GRUB at least. Now it shows the Windows bootloader, I select Ubuntu and the computer just reboots.
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Jun 12, 2011
This is a strange one. Ever since upgrading to 11.04 64-bit, I've had this problem and I've just been dealing with it...
After the machine posts, grub presents itself. Before upgrading, it would timeout after 5 seconds and boot the first/default entry. Since the upgrade, it no longer automatically boots the first entry. In addition, it reboots the computer after selecting the first entry. After it comes back up to grub, you select the first option and this time it boots.
I'm pulling my hair out on this one. I'm by no means a Linux expert, but I've been running Ubuntu for a few years now and this is one of the first issues that I've been unable to work through.
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