On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Rony wrote:
My system is an Intel 845 with IDE drives. Has anyone on this list successfully booted from 2.6.27.8 using an IDE HDD on an 845 chipset mobo? Do the new kernels mean goodbye to old hardware? Could this be one reason why K/Ubuntu 8.10 does not boot live into an old 845 chipset + IDE system?
I don't know what's the cause of your issue, but I'm currently using Ubuntu 8.10 with the generic 2.6.27-9 and my Intel 845GL system with IDE HDD is working perfectly fine. You've probably missed out some option in menuconfig.
Also with respect to the inability to boot from the K/Ubuntu live CD, that's due to a bug with intel driver and/or compiz: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/259385 As a workaround, you can remove compiz before logging in. (Details in the bug report.)