Installing on a computer with USB 3.0 hardware

Question

I'm installing Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit version on an HP Envy 15. I get the same problem these people have here:

Error when installing: "unable to find a medium containing a live file system"

but the question was never resolved. I spent so long researching and got so frustrated that I took my computer down to a shop and asked them to install it for me. It took them a while but they managed to get it installed. The reason for this error they had said was because Ubuntu didn't have the USB 3.0 drivers it needed to install properly.

I'm reinstalling Ubuntu yet again and I've run into the same issue so my question is: does anyone know.. a) Where to get these USB 3.0 drivers? b) How to get them installed when installing the Ubuntu OS?

Thanks,
Matt

Answer 1

If your computer have an SD slot card, install from it. Put the image in both, the CD and the SD card. Your computer will start from the CD and it will load the installation from the SD. This is because your SD has USB 2.0 ports.

The HP Envy 15 have more issues to solve. You can find how to solve them in my blog:

http://airamrguez.blogspot.com/search/label/HP%20Envy

Answer 2

Have you tried to edit grub file:

sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst

Add the line:

pci=nomsi

Then save and exit (type CTRL + X then type Y then type ENTER)

Then execute:

sudo nano update-grub

Reboot and USB 3.0 should be working, like mounting PENs, etc.