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cannot boot live on Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 motherboard

Asked by Svetoslav Barabonkov

Bought new mobo Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with AMD FX-8120 CPU. Trying to boot live so to be able to install the OS but no luck. Neither from the USB nor CD. In both cases goes to the boot screen where it asks whether to run Ubuntu live, or safe mode and so on. Then it runs vmlinuz ...... and starts discovering various devices (input like kbd, mouse ) and all of a sudden stops and does nothing.
Tried ubuntu from CD and mint from USB, same thing. It seems to stop at different places but nonetheless stops. I know the USB and the CD are working because can boot on different systems.

The mobo is brand new, could be some BIOS, or other problems with this board and Linux. Haven't try installing Windows but I really don't want to. Any ideas, thanks?

Also in the systems: 120G SSD, EVGA GX570 Classified, 16G Patriot 1866 DDR3

Update: Today I installed WinXP and it worked fine.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try the boot option:

nouveau.blacklist=1

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Svetoslav Barabonkov (bochko) said : 		#2

I can't even boot to command line. It starts with the system messages as it boots and at some point just halts.
Tried Ubuntu 11.10, Mint12.

Actually I made it work by taking the SDD out and installing it on my older machine. From there I live booted Ubuntu 11.10 and installed it. Then I put back the drive in the new machine, and it worked with some tweaks!!

Don't know what is going on but would have been more comfortable to know that I can boot live in case I need it.

Where do I have to set this "nouveau.blacklist=1" parameter?

Any ideas? Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ubuntu 11.10 and Mint 12 are 2 different distros.

Hold SHIFT at boot then press E to (e)dit the boot options. Find: quiet splash and delete the words, then add the option and hit ENTER

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

you add boot options to Grub which loads first and will show on ANY video hardware, its a text interface

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Svetoslav Barabonkov (bochko) said : 		#5

Hey thanks, this solved the problem.