<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Morrissey <<a href="mailto:morrissey.james1@gmail.com">morrissey.james1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi all, I have just received my new laptop. Its a Thinkpad x121e, with Intel (Core i3). I am trying to put ubuntu on it, but i am having some problems with the 64 bit live USB. When i run the USB i get i get a GRUB-looking screen, with options to: 1. Try Ubuntu without installing 2. Install Ubuntu 3. Check the disk Wanting to repartition my HDD (using GParted) so that i can dual boot, i 'Try Ubuntu without Installing', at which point the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am then forced into a hard reboot. I get the exact same result when i 'Check the disk'. To check the USB, i tried it on my old laptop (32bit, Celeron M). When i did so i got a purple screen with an image of what looks like a keyboard and a man, and then a message telling me to try a kernel which matches with my machined architecture. I then tried a live USB with 32 bit ubuntu and the live USB works fine - i am sending this email from this live instance. The same can be said for a 32 bit Mint live usb. So i am not sure what is going on. If anyone could tell me why the 64bit install is not working, it would be great as i'd like to get it up and running. The only thing i could think of was that i have downloaded the amd64.iso, and this is an intel machine, but all the sites on the web suggest that this shouldn't make a difference (if it does, where might i get an 64 bit version for intel). In addition i am not sure why, if this was the problem, my old celeron laptop brings up the error message while the new machine just hangs. One more question i have is about dual booting and maintaining my recovery partition (something i have not had to do before). From GParted i see that the recovery partition is located at the end of the hard drive. I am wondering two things: 1. If i resize the windows partition will the recovery partition move next to it? 2. If not would i do well to install ubuntu between the windows and recovery partition, and how do i do this since the 'install into largest continuous space' option seems to have been replaced by the 'install alongside windows' option in the installer. Will the alongside option put the install in the right place? As always, any and all help is very much appreciated. Thanks, James. -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> Hello James, Perhaps not the most useful response you'll receive but... I had the same issue with the live cd on 64 bit, the only way I could get it on was to start with a 10.04 disk and upgrade. It did go without issue and if you really need to get it on your machine asap perhaps this is the best route? <div>Best Regards,</div><div> </div><div>Dave Hanson</div><div> </div><img src="http://hansonforensics.co.uk/logo.png" height="24" width="200">