Ubuntu won't install

What do i do?

I am on an ASUS computer... pretty strong i think... It should not be a problem.
I will get back to you with the specific details if needed.

This is my first time with Ubuntu... so I'm so familiar with it.
I had to change the reboot priorities, so the cd. was first. Then I rebooted with the ubuntu 7.10-desktop-i386.iso in the cd.
I pressed the first button saying something like "Install and run"... or something... then it extracted, took about 2 sec.
And left me with a black screen with a white blinking thing at the upper left corner.... all day and night... this can't be right.
Please help me... I really want ubuntu on my computer.

Try to check the CD - there is an option called "Check CD for Defets" in boot menu.

Hello

Try these:

1. When you first boot the CD and you see the initial menu come up with all the options on it, press F5 for more options and a line of some text should appear. Try removing "quiet splash" from that line. Then hit Enter and see if it boots.

2. As an alternative, Go here http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download and click the check box for next to: "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD". This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based installer. (You can only install ubuntu on your computer with this CD and it doesnt allow you to run a demo of ubuntu as the live CD did)

Have a try and keep us informed

Bhavani Shankar.

"Try to check the CD - there is an option called "Check CD for Defets" in boot menu."

I can't. I get the same shit... a black screen.

"1. When you first boot the CD and you see the initial menu come up with all the options on it, press F5 for more options and a line of some text should appear. Try removing "quiet splash" from that line. Then hit Enter and see if it boots."

did it, and I finally saw some command-ish lines... but then it stopped again and same story... btw. I think you ment F6 right??

"2. As an alternative, Go here http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download and click the check box for next to: "Check here if you need the alternate desktop CD". This CD does not include the Live CD, instead it uses a text-based installer. (You can only install ubuntu on your computer with this CD and it doesnt allow you to run a demo of ubuntu as the live CD did)"

Made no difference.... aarh.

"Try to check the CD - there is an option called "Check CD for Defets" in boot menu.

I can't. I get the same shit... a black screen."

→ it seems to be problem with CD - are you able to "check" e.g. in another computer?

Try to burn the CD again and slowly. Also check downloaded ISO file - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

 I had the same problem with live CD resolved by this:"When you see the black screen:
- first try to dynamically change screen resolution plese the press CTR + ALT + "+" and/or CTRL + ALT + "-"
- Try to restart the graphic layer press CTR + ALT + BACKSPACE"

 Vojtěch Trefný*

To my amazement it worked on another stinky computer... partially... Ubuntu got to load, but then i was facing a kommando prompt... I tried to write something... but what do i know ;)

I did burn the cd again on 4x. but it made no difference.

 Алексей*

It didn't work... The computer didn't respond when I tried. :-(

uuh by the way.. I am running Windows xp now... is that a problem? or do i have to delete it??? I Tried to use wubi, But it gave me the same problem... with the black screen.

However thankyou for the answers :)

yes.. I meant f6 sorry for that.. You can dual boot ubuntu with windows No problems with that...
Make of your graphics card please....

My graphic card is:
ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series

Does this answer your question?

I am absolutely not familliar with checking stuff like that... please help though... it seems as it's a tough nut to crack
thankyou very much.

btw. if it helps.

My labtop is:

ASUS A6R

with:

Intel (R) Celeron (R) M CPU 420 1.20 GHz

Thanks

Hi,

Check out this link: http://osdir.com/ml/ubuntu.laptop.testing/2006-09/msg00010.html
It was the 6th item listed by Google (The first one indented) when I searched for "Asus A6R".

It sounds like these laptops have video driver issues. You should be able to boot the live CD on
any PC with at least 128 MB RAM, and run Ubuntu from the CD, without touching your disk at all.

Since it doesn't alter the hard drive, you might try running the CD on another PC, just to verify
that it works on another machine. I have had trouble with the CD on some older PCs. After it
loads onto the RAM disk, it checks your hardware. Sometimes it has trouble starting the X-windows
GUI. You might try various screen resolution settings before trying to boot from the CD. If you
have Windoze, use that to set the resolution, then shut down and boot the CD. If it doesn't work,
restart in Win and try a different setting. Your problem definitely seems related to your video.

Jerry

Now I can finally run the live version. I added "hpet=disable" when i tried to run it, and it worked like a charm... Then I installed it, but now I still can't run Ubuntu on the computer... I get the same problem... It works only from the live CD, when I add the code. :(
Any thoughts?

Thankyou Jakupl

I tried to do as http://grumpymole.blogspot.com/2007/05/ubuntu-how-to-edit-grub-boot-parameters.html said...
When I was to try it, the hpet=disable parameter was already there... I rebooted just to make sure. Didn't work. Then I tried to remove the parameter. Didn't work at all.

so It's not because the boot parameters don't include "hpet=disable"

Please edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and add hpet=disable to the default kernel parameter

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Search the row

# defoptions=........ your options

and add the "hpet=disable" parameter

# defoptions=........ your options hpet=disable

save and exit

then type:

sudo update-grub

Reboot your pc, then try to shutdown

Hope this help

I had the same problem trying to load Ubuntu onto an AMD based system with an ECS AMD690GM-M2+
I went to the power options screen in BIOS and set HPET support to disable.
It will now load from a CD and boot sucessfully.
Interestingly enough with an ECS AMD690GM-M2 motherboard it is not necessary to disable HPET support.