Live CD hangs

[Kalman Reti]

Rob wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am trying to use the 5.1 Live CD.  However, it hangs during boot right
>after mentioning something about "enterprise volume manager" or
>something like that.
>
>I have never used Ubuntu, so I am totally clueless.
>
>I am using an HP Pavillion zd8000 laptop.  Right now on my hard drive I
>have Windows XP and Gentoo Linux.  I wonder if it has something to do
>with the way my hard disk is set up as I remember seeing that the Live
>CD might use existing swap space.
>
>Thanks!   Rob.
>
Did you mean to say "5.10" (Breezy) instead of 5.1?  I've successfully used
both PPC and i386 5.10 live cds on several pieces of hardware.  If you 
really
meant 5.1, I don't think I have anything to offer (the oldest I used was 
5.4 Hoary).

When it hangs, can you get into another console (i.e. ctrl-alt-F1 or 
ctrl-alt-F2)?
If you can, you can use dmesg to see the console messages which might
give a clue.  Also, there might be error messages on the ctrl-alt-F4 (or 
other)
console.

If that doesn't work, try booting live-expert, just hitting return for 
most of the
questions it asks which are different than the normal boot, and at the end
when it asks what run level to go into, type 1 (i.e. the numeral one). 
 After
you see the message about terninating all the processes, you should be able
to type ctrl-alt-F1 and then ctrl-alt-F8 and be in single user mode.  If 
you
haven't had any errors so far, you can look at the dmesg output to see
what devices it detected as the kernel was coming up and if it got serious
errors using them.