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<DIV><FONT size=2>D. Michael McIntyre wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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size=2></FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Did you get all the way into a graphical desktop
on the live CD that time?<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>No I didn't. In fact, the only way I can
get it to boot at all (with CD or DVD) is pressing F6 at the boot options
screen, adding "break=top" to the line that pops up, and them adding "modprobe
piix" and then "exit" to the next screen it stops at. Otherwise, I'll get
another error. I have no idea what this does, I just learned it here
earlier this week.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Andrew Jarret wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>1. Wait for like 15 minutes (already suggested). I think
that if you<BR>wait long enough it will probably give up and continue onwards to
KDE.<BR>2. Try to use switch between ttys with that keyboard shortcut (I
think<BR>it is Ctl + Alt + [F2-F4]) to see if you can get a login prompt.
This<BR>probably won't work if Feisty gets stuck during the boot
process.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>I put it on to boot last night before
going to bed; this morning it was a black screen. As soon as I finished this
email, I'm going to try again and watch it the whole way through.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>3. I was going to say you could try removing the
wireless card, but<BR>this isn't feasible since you are using a laptop.
You might be able<BR>to disable the wireless card from within the BIOS, but I am
not sure<BR>if this will affect Kubuntu's booting process. While you're at
it,<BR>you could also try pressing the Disable/Enable Wireless button that
I<BR>am sure is somewhere on your Inspiron while it is booting (I don't<BR>think
it would do anything before Kubuntu starts to boot).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>I tried turned the wireless card off
when booting, but that didn't change anything. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>Also, I made sure the drivers for my
Broadcom 440x 10/100 Integrated Controller were up to date; I assume that's the
piece that's causing the problem. I could disable it from the Device Manager,
but I don't want to hurt anything. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>If it's almost impossible to fix a
hardware problem, I might be better off using Gentoo . . . at least it loaded
without any errors. I'm willing to try almost anything to get Kubuntu running,
but I don't know what any of this means. (At least in windows, I can
understand the error messages ;-)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic" size=2>Andrew</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>