Problems booting Edgy

[Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson]

Hello,

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:

> Jan and Bertil Smark Nilsson wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> When I boot my latest Version of Edgy, press F5 and then 3, I hear
>> nothing.
> Just to be clear: you are pressing F5, 3, Enter, Enter, and you hear the
> CD drive spin up to boot right? There are unfortunately no sounds on the
> F5 menu.

Yes. I've had assistance from my sighted wife, just to make sure.

> If you don't hear any sound on startup you likely have a sound card
> problem. In that case you may want to seek help on the general
> ubuntu-user mailing list or the forums. Have you tried the same CD on a
> different computer?

I do have a soundcard problem. I've both a Riptide card and an SB Live 
card in the computer. The Riptide card doesn't workwith my Etch 
distribution, so I assume that it would be the same with Ubuntu. 
However, Ubuntu 
goes for the Riptide card. I'd be able to get around that by 
specifying another device later on. After booting I end up with a screen 
that says "examples" and "install". If I press alt-f1 or alt-f2 nothing 
happens. I'm able to go a text terminal and run brltty. I can then 
ascertain that Orca hasn.t loaded by doing ps -C orca.

I don't have another suitable computer, so I haven't tried that yet. 
However, this is not the first Ubuntu live CD that won't run. I've no 
problems with Knoppix or grml.

Regards,

Bertil