<html><body> I have.<div><br /></div><div>With previous Live CD's I've had a menu instead of it just booting straight in which has allowed me to select the resolution and toggle VGA mode with just an F key pressed. Granted I had to initiate this myself but it did work.</div><div><br /></div><div>10.04 and 10.10 seem to skip this "boot screen" in my experience though, although there may be a way of toggling it.</div><div><br /></div><div>I understand what you are saying about the masses not wanting to have to faff with command lines etc but I dont think most average users are even going to have heard of Linux let alone try to install it. However my 19yo sister recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook remix on her Acer Netbook with no issues at all.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think the problems you are having are probably fairly rare, I've installed Ubuntu/Kubuntu/SuSe/Mandriva/Linuxmint on at least 10 different physical PC's plus in VM's as well and never experienced the problem you have. I have however had Windows many times over the years crash after installing and do nothing but blue screen of death, indeed my recent decision for moving permanently to Ubuntu 10.10 was due to Microsoft updates pulling down a new Intel GFX driver and causing the PC to hang on every boot, even a system restore didnt work.</div><div><br /></div><div>I think most average users who stick in an Ubuntu Live CD will probably be able to install it without the issues you describe. I'm not saying youre lying or anything of that sort, but I think you should try and install it on other machines and judge your experience based on more than just this one machine. (Unless I've misread and you have this same issue on multiple systems).</div><div><br /></div><div>Paul.<br /><br /><br /><blockquote><br />----- Original Message -----<br /><div style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com></div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:57:53 +0100<br /><div style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss<br /><br /><br />
Just seen Alan Bell's post and he has mentioned something no one else <br />
has, there is meant to be a failsafe X in low res mode. I didnt know <br />
that and have not in 4 years seen that mentioned before. Has anyone <br />
else ever seen Ubuntu boot in this failsafe mode? What is meant to <br />
trigger this mode?<br /><br />
If it just worked then my son could do it but 4 out of 4 failures meant <br />
for me it didnt just work.<br /><br />
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