[CoLoCo] Hardy LiveCD Won't Boot

[Leon Jaimes]

Hello,
Are you using the i368 iso?
If so try the AMD 64 desktop iso.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> The Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD won't boot on my new laptop.  Its an Acer Aspire
>> 4520-5235 with a 1.8GHz AMD Athlon 64x2 CPU, 1GB of 667MHz DDR RAM, a
>> 160GB hard drive, Realtech audio sound card, and an Nvidia Geforce
>> 7000M/610M nForce chipset.  The CD boots to the menu where you select
>> the language then select the option to try Ubuntu, after that it starts
>> to load and part way through it just freezes up solid.  Does anyone have
>> any ideas of why it does this?  The LiveCD boots to the desktop on my
>> Athlon XP desktop system.
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> Have you tried booting a different CD? Maybe one from a previous version
> like 7.10? If it won't boot anything then that might hint at a hardware
> incompatibility but nothing you list seems suspect (except maybe realtech
> but I haven't seem issues with that lately). If other CDs will boot then I'd
> say bad burn. It's possible for a CD to boot on one system and not another.
> It depends somewhat on what the error is and some drives just read better.
>
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