[CoLoCo] Hardy LiveCD Won't Boot
Andrew
keen101 at gmail.com
Mon May 19 16:51:38 BST 2008
Yeah, make sure you are not trying to use the intel i386 iso. That
could be your problem.
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Leon Jaimes <slyride at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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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