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can't install ubuntu...tried lots o suggestions

Asked by Seri

hp comp
vid 5600 fx 250 mb (maker?)
onboard video
fic am37 motherboard came with hp pavillion 701 (not an exact match on the hp website...minor differences but it seems to match)
1.5 gig ram
cdr 2700
athalon 1600 proccessor

everything has been disabled in bios (onboard lan and audio) sm bus controller couldn't find driver for it. motherboard ms-6367 version 1.0.
nvidia chipshet gforce is the onboard video.

my cd rom is kinda old...might have reading trouble...during xp install on the driver cab it had trouble reading off the disc (slightly scratched disc) made a funny noise...

if i need to get into bios i have to take video card out and switch to onboard video...otherwise it's just a blank screen.

i don't know crap about computers, my friend built it for me two days ago and that's what he told me to say what i have.

so i start to install unbuntu after a few minutes and then it says uncompressing linux...,ok booting the kernal.
and it just sits there.

i looked on the site and some people suggested pressing f6 and putting in stuff...i haven't tried that but i don't want to put stuff in if i don't know what it's gonna do...

and then some people said that linux had trouble with hp...or maybe a video card issue...

and i did have some problems with my computer earlier. the day that i got it i i loaded warcraft got on the internet...didn't have virus protection but i got mcafee the next day and i found around @ 2000 things to be quarantiened...around 11 stuff running around that i couldn't do anything about...i hate the new mcafee anyways....

i decided

and then my shortcuts didn't work...amazingly...like my shortcut to warcraft (looked in the warcraft folder and there was no launch icon ...thingy) and i tried to get disply by rightclicking properties that didn't work...went into control panel to get display shortcut didn't work...system didn't work etiher.

so i was screwed. rebooted, then when it started again it asked me for my username and password. a password was never set and it had never asked me or the guy who built it for a password. so now i can't get into xp anymore...i tried leaving the password field blank and enter, didn't work, tried putting administrator in the username field no password, didn't work. had some help me, he put in adminstrator and some passwords (no idea what) that didn't work either.

Sooooooooooooooooo. Really it sounds to me (not that i know much) that it would be a hardware issue?

or any other ideas?

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Ricky Hewitt (rickyhewitt) said : 		#1

Boot into your ubuntu CD, and try testing the CD for defects (there is a menu option) and report back.

You may also want to try editing the boot line when booting, by removing the parameters 'splash' and 'quiet', and then report back with any errors that may be occurring.

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Seri (seriphin) said : 		#2

i checked the cd for errors and it said there was a mismatch on a casper folder...it went by really fast so i couldn't write it down.

and i didn't really know how to remove the parameters....so i just guessed by typing in remove splash quiet...it started loading but eventually gave me the same error, uncompressing linux..., booting kernal.

if anyone could tell me how to remove the parameters splash and quiet i'd really appreciate it.

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Seri (seriphin) said : 		#3

.I tried alot of things after reading through the forums. I can't remember the order but I pressed f6 and entered this stuff after root=/dev/ram rw quiet splash]

i don't know if that's right. i was just kind of guessing that was what i was supposed to do.

ide=nodma

gave me the same error message. uncompressing linux..., ok booting the kernal

irqpoll noapic nolapic

gave me [4294670.201000] Bios bug, local APIC#0 not detected

acpi=off pci=noacpi nolapic

gave me [148.194036] Bios bug, local APIC#0 not detected

boot=

gave me /init:107 mountroot:not found
mount: Mounting /root/dev on dev/.static.dev failed: no such file or directory
mount: mounting/sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
mount: (proc?? can't read my writing on/root/proc failed No such file or directory

Busybox v 1.01 (Debian 1:0.0(-4unbuntu3) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter help for built-in commands

/bin/sh: can't acess ttyi job control turned off

#

(pretty much what it said...may be an error i made in writing on my part becuase in my notes my writing got super tiny)

then i thought rm might stand for remove. lol. oh well i tried this too

rm quiet splash gave me

Busybox v1.01 (Devian 1:1.01-4unbuntu3)
Built-in shell (ash)
Enter help for a list of built-in commands

/bin/sh: can't access ttyi job control turned off

then i read some other stuff i couldn't figure out how to even guess to try like

press esc to get to grub
select kernal w/ arrows then press e
(basically) slect the kernal line you want press e
@end of line
noapic nolapic
get off text
b to boot

so yeah. nuttin worked. burning alt cd ubuntu 7.10 now...will see how that goes

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Seri (seriphin) said : 		#4

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alt cd worked!!!!!!!!!!

nevermind.