[wellylug] Install Suggestions

[Cliff Pratt]

On 03/04/11 15:25, Grant McLean wrote:
> Hi
>
> I picked up a new desktop PC yesterday with the intention of running
> Ubuntu Linux on it but unfortunately haven't had any success with the
> installation.  The model is HP All-In-One 200-5020A.
>
> I burnt a 10.10 (Maverick) i386 image onto a USB drive and later onto a
> CDROM.  In both cases the initial signs were promising and the Ubuntu
> boot screen appeared with the logo at the bottom but then it dropped
> back to a text screen with a mass of messages scrolling by at very high
> speed.
>
> I was able to successfully boot my laptop using both the USB stick and
> the CD, so I'm wondering if there's some hardware incompatibility with
> the desktop system.
>
> I'd like to tell you what the messages on screen say but they're
> scrolling by so fast I can't read them.  I tried the Pause key, Scroll
> Lock, Ctrl-S and various other key combinations but nothing seemed to
> affect it.  I even took a photo hoping to freeze it but to no avail:
>
>    http://www.mclean.net.nz/boot-pic.jpg
>
> It's my understanding that the numbers in the first column indicate the
> time (milliseconds?) since the kernel started running, but in this case
> the numbers are not increasing (even after leaving the messages to
> scroll by for several minutes).
>
> I grabbed an ISO of a different (small) linux distro called 'INSERT' and
> it displayed the bootloader and then hung with a blank screen after
> loading the kernel.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try next?
>
Now *that* is interesting. I'm trying to install U10.10 (alternative 
disk) on VMWare on XP and under some circumstances (mainly fiddling with 
the 'vga' kernel parameter), I get exactly that. A U7.x 'live' disk 
booted OK.

Someone suggested that I try:
i915.modeset=0 xforcevesa

I haven't yet had a chance, but the second parameter in particular looks 
interesting.

If you discover a solution I'd be really interested.

Cheers,

Cliff