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HD installation fails to boot

Asked by jason

Installed without a hitch from the live CD, rebooted (had to select "boot from first hard drive" in the CD menu). Set up all system preferences, updates, etc. I noticed an icon in the top right of the screen saying a reboot was necessary.

I rebooted and was greeted by a blinking white underscore on a black screen (did nothing after several minutes and/or keys pressed). Put in the CD, tried the "boot from first hard drive" option, got something like "Booting the kernel..." which didn't go away or change even after waiting patiently for a few minutes (the other time, it loaded within seconds). I've tried fiddling with my BIOS settings endlessly to no avail. The installation is the AMD64-specific version on a SATA hard drive, if that helps at all.

EDIT: The problem was a hardware configuration error-- it boots fine and without CD now. This request can be closed/deleted whenever possible.

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williamts99 (williamts99) said : 		#1

Glad you figured it out! To close your support request please refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SupportRequests

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