tried live-cd tonight and nothing...

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:06:50AM -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> I have finally tried the live-cd tonight for the first time.  It was
> done on a machine that already runs Ubuntu.
> 
> And litterally nothing happens.  The cd initially boots into the grub
> menu.  Then no matter which option from that menu I choose, it
> initially starts booting and the last thing I see (but very briefly)
> is the line with "initrd", then the screen becomes black and then
> nothing: no HD activity, no cd activity; it just stays like that until
> I hard-reboot the machine.
> 
> Anyone has an idea of things I could try to try to get it to boot?

Have you tried burning a new CD?  Verify the md5sum of the .iso and try
burning at a lower speed.

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 - mdz