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Blank Screen / Lock Up During Install

Asked by jc711

Attempting to install Edgy x86 from burned CD.
After progress bar completes blinking prompt appears in top left, blinks a few times and then disappears. CD continues to spin, floppy light comes and goes and then blank screen appears. My monitor continues to detect a signal, but the screen is black.

I am running dual 20" LCD monitors using an ATI Radon 9600 dual monitor card, WD 250 gig SATA drive with windows and plenty of unpartitioned space for Ubuntu.

I have tried many command line options including:
live noapic nolapic
live acpi=off
live vga=771 noapic nolapic
*I also tired DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 and BOOT_DEBUG=2|3, nothing changed.

I get the same blank screen if I attempt to start in Safe mode.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I'd really like to check out Edgy.

Thanks,

John

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Francisco Javier Saavedra Plominsky (kuroyume) said : 		#1

i had something similar happen to me... it turned out my CD was bad... try downloading it again, checking the MD5 sum before you beurn it, and then checking the burned cd for error on the boot menu...

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Team WebProjectX (ubuntulinux-webprojectx) said : 		#2

Having similar issues. Is there a definitive way to avoid boot graphic issues?

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erktrek (erksjunk) said : 		#3

I had the same (or similar) problem - blank screen spinning cd - I have a Dell 24 inch monitor and an NVidia 8800 GTS card.

On a whim I hit the "F6" on the boot up screen and picked the MAX resolutiion, then booted the install.

It worked!! Hope this helps

Cheers,

E.

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erktrek (erksjunk) said : 		#4

Oops sorry I meant the F4 VGA option - it pops up a selection list and for giggles I chose 1280x1024x32 and it seemed to work (the install part did)

Now that Ubuntu is installed I am getting the same behavior - so I guess I need to add something to my startup stuff.

E.

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erktrek (erksjunk) said : 		#5

Final report if this helps any..

Got everything working sort of

Having major difficulty finding the correct mode for resolution of 1920x1200 so opted for a lower initial res. I edited the /boot/grub/menu.lst and added vga=0x31B - which is something like 1280x1024 but at least it gets me to the logon screen.

I mucked around with Ubuntu's restricted driver stuff and automatix2's but never got things working properly. I ended up installing the latest and greatest NVIDIA drivers directly. This works mostly but for some reason every time I reboot I have to recompile the module otherwise X crashes with a version conflict..

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