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This is after 4 days of hell, trying to find a solution for a thing that I anticipated would take 30 minutes. Kindly help me.

I have a project on ROS (robot operating system). ROS works only with trusty Ubuntu, and its indigo version is best suitable for Ubuntu 14.04. I have a HP zbook 15 G2 with core i7, 64 bit, 512GB SSD and 16 GB RAM. It had windows 7 pre-installed.

I tried to first do a dual boot with Ubuntu 14 64 bit amd, but I got an error that ext4 cant be mounted.Then it gave an fsyncing error.

I then tried to run as VM in windows 7. That gave issues too.

Upon contact with my IT team at work, they told me that UEFI could be causing the problem. I decided to start from the scratch and get ubuntu installed on a clean PC

Therefore I formatted everything. I tried to install Ubuntu 14 and ubsequently Ubuntu 16. Both failed. The file system ext4, 3, 2 all fail to mount. Then they give the fsyncing error.

I started googling about the problem. Someone suggested, that I should try another distribution of Ubuntu. So I went for Ubuntu mate and it installed seamlessly. Later on Windows 7 installed seamlessly too. My hard disk has no errors. But sadly both of the above dont support ROS.

So I am back to zero. I have tried everything I could to run ubuntu 14 or 16 on this PC. The ubuntu website says that this computer model has even an option of pre-installed ubuntu. Someone in my IT team, emailed me that he was able to install ubuntu 14 on the same model of the PC without a problem.

Can someone help me in perhaps identifying a ubuntu version that can be installed on this PC. I have seen some posts of guys with the same computer model having issues that I am having right now. None of them were solved. I would highly appreciate any help.

Viper Maverick
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It appears that packages.ros.org covers all currently supported Ubuntu Operating systems. You should be able to install the appropriate version of these packages on virtually any flavor of currently supported Ubuntu you desire. You don't mention any details, but I would not be surprised to discover that your installations that failed were due to a corrupt ISO. I base this theory on the fact that you were able to successfully install Mate (which would indicate hardware is unlikely to be the issue)

Elder Geek
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