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Unable to boot from Ubuntu 9.10 CD on Pavillion XH136

Asked by Luis Cintron

Tried many times with various cds, burning programs, tried alternate download, changing Bios settings, swapping CD ROM, you name it. Ubuntu never even gave a sign it was attempting to load.

The only thing that worked was using Xubuntu instead, probably because it only required 192Mb of RAM, which is exactly what I had. Ubuntu, come to find out, needs 256Mb.

Assuming that was the issue, trying to install from Ubuntu CD without a simple notification like "***Unable to load Ubuntu, not enough memory*** is a bug to be fixed. Running a small app to scan for system requirements and notify the user would avoid hours of frustration for a newbie. Maybe this is built in already and did not work properly.

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Nandan Vaidya (gotunandan) said : 		#1

You can try the alternate installation CD from:
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#alternate

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System requirements

Ubuntu is available for PC, 64-Bit PC and Intel-based Mac architectures. At least 256 MB of RAM is required to run the alternate install CD (384MB of RAM is required to use the live CD based installer). Install requires at least 4 GB of disk space.
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The above paragraph is present at the very end of the page here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/desktopedition

P.S. There seen to be a couple of bug reports on a related topic
 Bug #121517 and Bug #156039

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Luis Cintron (ditto) said : 		#2

Thank you for the quick response Nandan.

If the program is smart enough to know it can't load then it needs to tell user. Imagine that I now nothing of Ubuntu and someone hands me a CD, will I go hunting for requirements or will I pop the cd in? How frustrated would the user be after repeatedly trying to boot from the cd to see nothing but Vista loading?

I saw the other postings. This is not about the technical details of system requirements, if Ubuntu can't load, then it should warn you before it moves on to the infected partition.

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