How can I upgrade From 2.8 to 3.0

[gold_finger]

Goldfinger, Hey I'm a Linux user I never give up

Stubborn like me I see.

I doubt you're making this mistake, but will put it out there just in case.  If selecting "Something else" and setting partitions manually, make sure that "Device for boot loader installation" is set for "/dev/sda" and not changed to a particular partition number (eg.  sda1, sda5, etc.).

If possible, while booted into live dvd, run this command in terminal and copy/paste the output back here so we can see exact hardware specs of the system.

Code:

inxi -Fxz

Thanks.


P.s.  You're not setting it up with a separate /boot partition are you?  If yes, then that is one time you would point "Device for boot loader installation" differently.  In that case, you'd point it to the /boot partition.