Installation trouble with HP Pavilion G6, tried also booting from usb stick but i get blank screen

If you are using wubi, you can use magicdisk or daemontools to mount the ISO (Make sure you MD5 test the ISO first) then run the installer from there

If you are using the USB, what is the video card the system has?

Vide card is: AMD Radeon HD 6540G2 Dual GPU (1 GB DDR3 dedicated). I think that is unsopported but I'm not sure

I'll try with magicdisk.
With my company laptop (Dell Latitude), I had no problemes both USB stick and wubi

I have the same problem on my HP Pavailion g6.

The Live CD just gave me a blank screen so I tried the alternative CD.

I have succeeded in installing (K)ubuntu using the alternative CD, but I cannot boot into my installation. The grub menu pops up but if I try to boot into (K)ubuntu I only get a blank screen.

I presume this is a driver issue. Does anyone know how to boot (K)ubuntu in a "fail-safe" mode?

Try the boot option:

nomodeset

May help

I've narrowed the problem down. I think it is a kernel problem.

I tried different distributions and it all of them didn't work. But I discovered older versions with kernel 2.6 will boot and work on my computer. I installed an older version of Kubuntu (11.04) and it works well on my computer. I presume the versions 3.0 came with an unstable graphics driver compared to 2.6.

Thanks anyway.

Same problem here too, trying to install 11.10 usin wubi.exe.

Will install 11.04 and post what happens!

I think this is because Linux Kernel 3.0 uses a video driver that is not compatible with AMD APU graphics.

Here is a work around that does the trick if you have a *wired* internet:

1. Install Kubuntu 11.04 (11.04 uses kernel 2.6)
Graphics, and wired internet will work; but wireless won't.

2. Install proprietary AMD drivers
This step is to ensure that graphics works with kernel 3.0 when we upgrade.

3. Upgrade to Kubuntu 11.10
Everything should work.

I just brought my g6 today in the hope off using ubuntu.. im pretty new to ubuntu so i dont know the technical things, but im having this same annoying blank screen problem... someone found a fix here: http://admaris.com/wp/blog/2011/07/03/ubuntu-on-hp-g6-laptop-tales-from-the-grave/
but this stuff looks so advanced for me.. i really really hope this is fixed in the wubi loader for 12:04.. we gotta wait 4 months now I guess

Looks like the boot option is:

modeset=0

According to that guide. It's not very technical if you read it. The easier way to get the dual boot is to install Windows to only a portion of the available space. The default is to use 100% so instead of clicking next like most Windows users do, actually stop and read the screen. You will be able to leave unpartitioned space and install Ubuntu to the free space once you get Windows sorted.