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Ubuntu 11.04 cd won't boot on mac?

Asked by Manny Gu

I made a boot cd following the instructions on the website. I clicked alt while starting up I selected the CD as the boot media. it loads some stuff goes into a purple screen with a little white man on the bottom. Then it goes into a completely black screen like a command line. then after a while the ubuntu load screen appears with the little white and orange loading dots. it flashes a bunch of text across the screen really fast then says cannot find some file or something, and just stops and freezes. It never goes into a gui or anything. I have burned the cd twice and tried. I can't get it to work any help. Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What video chip does the system use?
Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?
Did you burn the CD as slowly as possible?

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Manny Gu (munthearchitect) said : 		#2

Yes I did an MD5 hash. it uses a NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. I burned as slow as possible x8 for this particular cd

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

ok cool. Add the bootoption:

nouveau.blacklist=1

Should be ok

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Manny Gu (munthearchitect) said : 		#4

Sorry for my ignorance, but How do I do this?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Did you research what I said, or immediately ask for clarification?

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Manny Gu (munthearchitect) said : 		#6

I researched nouveau.blacklist=1 is the nvidia driver right? but I couldnt find out how to add it to the boot option, or exactly what that meant.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#7

nouveau is the open source nvidia driver, some chips don't like it so you blacklist it and it forces the system to use the nv driver which should work. You can then install the proprietary driver one in the OS.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDBootOptions

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Manny Gu (munthearchitect) said : 		#8

Thank you it still wont work as far as I can tell, as I can't even get to that GUI screen at all.

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Manny Gu (munthearchitect) said : 		#9

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#10

There's always the alternate ISO, it installs in text mode so should be ok