[DC LoCo] An Install Fail Party

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thursday, September 09, 2010 09:32:45 am Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> Man, I just had a private fail party yesterday, just me and my intern.  It
> was a Gateway MA2.  Seems to be some kind of video card issue.  Couldn't
> get through the LIveCD -- it would die on the Ubuntu logo.  Lubuntu LiveCD
> failed too.  Went with the alternate installer and got it to install, but
> on reboot the Ubuntu logo would choke it every time.  Couldn't figure out
> how to get to the CLI from the alternate CD to try anything (my stab in
> the dark was that this was the KMS issue referenced in the release
> notes<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Working around
> bugs in the new kernel video architecture>), so...

Could also be Plymouth.  Here's how you test:

Hold down shift as soon as you see the BIOS splash.  You should get a GRUB 
menu. Hit 'e' to edit the boot line.  Arrow key your way down to the vmlinuz 
line, and backspace out the "quiet splash" from the end.  It'll boot without 
the Ubuntu logo,  just text. If this works, I think it's likely Plymouth's 
fault. 

Also try adding "i915.modeset=0" to see if it's KMS's problem.

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Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com