On 12/03/2016 03:35 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
On 12/03/2016 04:41 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/03/2016 01:00 PM, Tim Evans wrote:
During the boot from bootable thumb drive, several hundred messages of
the following ilk showed up:
[nn] printk messages dropped [timestamp] pcieport 0000:00:1c.0 PCIebus
Error: severity: corrected, type=physical layer, id.00e0 (Receiver ID)
This sounds like a hardware issue. Try booting from a LiveUSB with
GParted on it and see if you can use it to partition and format the
disk. If so, and the installer runs, just use the partitions you
created as is. If not, take it back to the dealer; that's exactly what
warranties are for.
Ay ay ay, oh no! The "bad hardware" response to brand new gear from a
nationally reputable manufacturer ,,,
Thank you, Joe. Do you agree these messages are disk-related?
These errors start before startup of the LiveUSB environment
completes. There are a lot of normal boot messages, the last one of
which is "starting Gnome Display Manager." At this point, the errors
start streaming and never stop. (Just tried again--they've been
scrolling for an hour and a half.)
Can you get to single-user mode from LiveUSB? The menus it offers
don't seem to indicate this is possible.
I don't have a Dell XPS 8900, but I have seen reports on reddit.com of
people with Dell XPS 8900 with Fedora 23 and 24 problems after having
had several other Linux distributions running just fine on the same
hardware. I'd suggest that, at this preliminary stage, blaming hardware
is a tech support convenience rather than the preferable way forward.
Persevere with this hardware; there is a solution toward Linux luxury to
be found.
Ken
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