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Freeze at Initial Boot After Install

Asked by cawley00

I have recently installed 8.1 from a CD onto an old computer. I had the installation procedure wipe and repartition the HD. The entire process seemed to work fine. When it was finished, it told me that it must reboot. After the reboot, it freezes just prior to what I imagine would be the Ubuntu splash screen. A brown background appears, along with the cursor. I have control of the cursor but the keyboard seems to work on about 50% of the boots (as determined by the num, caps, scroll lock lights). The alt-ctrl backspace, F1, and delete don't work although the alt-ctrl-prtintscreen REISUB does work.

I have also tried to use all of the acpi boot combinations I could find.

I'm new to Linux. This is my first install. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Mike

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cawley00 (cawley00) said : 		#1

Update:

I reinstalled Ubuntu and unchecked the "log in automatically" box. I now get to the login screen. After entering my credentials, the same problem occurs. If I press alt-ctrl-F1, I get what appears to be a command prompt, with some of the startup information visible, but the resolution changes so I cannot make out much. The computer then freezes.

I can however, choose other sessions. The failsafe GUI option and subsequent login gives me a warning message about being in failsafe mode, then after clicking ok, the computer freezes again.

If I choose the command prompt failsafe, I can get to a command prompt.

Hopefully some of that information helps.

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tmc1961 (tmc1961) said : 		#2

Sounds like a video card issue.
Install Ubuntu 8.4

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