tried live-cd tonight and nothing...

[Daniel Robitaille]

> > 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.
> 

I have now done a few more  tries, at various speed, from writers on 2
different computers.  I don't think it is the fault of the media.