Re: Live CD/DVD Doesn't Work?!?!

Hello fellow Ubuntuner,

I am guessing these problems are related somehow to your video adapter. I
think we could be more helpful if you provide us with your full hardware
specs...

You can load LiveCDs with different options than the default (press F1 when
you see the boot: prompt).

Hope these pointers help...

Amichai.


On 7/20/06, inertkinesis@xxxxxxxxxxx <inertkinesis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is my first time on this mailing list or any mailing list so bear
with me if I do something too n00bish.

I'm interested in installing Ubuntu on an external hard drive for use as a
second OS, but I want to give it a try first, using the Live CD/DVD. I have
a computer with an AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU (ML-44). I've downloaded and
burned both the CD and DVD, both of the AMD-64 type. When I boot from them
and press enter for the item at the top of the choices list, I get the
Ubuntu logo, the progress bar, and the nice brown text underneath. Now, two
different things happen, depending on whether I boot from the CD or DVD:

On the CD, it goes through a bunch of stuff, and then the brown
text/logo/progress bar screen disappears and I get a blank screen with a
command line cursor blinking in the upper left corner. After a few seconds
it stops blinking and then nothing happens. Pressing the power button on my
computer at this point does nothing.

On the DVD, it gets to a certain point in the loading process and all of a
sudden the logo and progress bar are gone and I'm looking at generic
gray-on-black system text. But things are still continuing to load. It gets
all the way to the end and it says something like "Loading Kernel" and it
gives me a cursor. I can type, press enter, etc, but nothing happens when I
do any of that. If I press the power button on my computer, Ubuntu unloads
everything and shuts down, ejecting the disk and asking me to press ENTER.

So, what is going on here? Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody walk me
through it or suggest some alternate things to try?

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