<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Grant,<br><br>Given the chances are some sort of new hardware incompatibility, you might try the beta of Ubuntu 11.04 (natty with kernel 2.6.38 ) to see if this addresses such issues. If there are still problems, you could try to get them diagnosed/resolved as part of the beta test programme. <br><br>http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/<br><br><br>Cheers<br><br> Brent Wood<br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 4/3/11, Grant McLean <i><grant@mclean.net.nz></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Grant McLean <grant@mclean.net.nz><br>Subject: [wellylug] Install Suggestions<br>To: "Wellington Linux Users Group" <wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz><br>Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 3:25 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi<br><br>I picked up a new desktop PC yesterday
with the intention of running<br>Ubuntu Linux on it but unfortunately haven't had any success with the<br>installation. The model is HP All-In-One 200-5020A.<br><br>I burnt a 10.10 (Maverick) i386 image onto a USB drive and later onto a<br>CDROM. In both cases the initial signs were promising and the Ubuntu<br>boot screen appeared with the logo at the bottom but then it dropped<br>back to a text screen with a mass of messages scrolling by at very high<br>speed.<br><br>I was able to successfully boot my laptop using both the USB stick and<br>the CD, so I'm wondering if there's some hardware incompatibility with<br>the desktop system.<br><br>I'd like to tell you what the messages on screen say but they're<br>scrolling by so fast I can't read them. I tried the Pause key, Scroll<br>Lock, Ctrl-S and various other key combinations but nothing seemed to<br>affect it. I even took a photo hoping to freeze it but to no avail:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.mclean.net.nz/boot-pic.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.mclean.net.nz/boot-pic.jpg</a><br><br>It's my understanding that the numbers in the first column indicate the<br>time (milliseconds?) since the kernel started running, but in this case<br>the numbers are not increasing (even after leaving the messages to<br>scroll by for several minutes).<br><br>I grabbed an ISO of a different (small) linux distro called 'INSERT' and<br>it displayed the bootloader and then hung with a blank screen after<br>loading the kernel.<br><br>Does anyone have any suggestions of what I could try next?<br><br>Cheers<br>Grant<br><br><br><br><br>--<br>Wellington Linux Users Group Mailing List: <a ymailto="mailto:wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz" href="/mc/compose?to=wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz">wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz</a><br>To Leave: <a href="http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug"
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