Live CD/DVD Doesn't Work?!?!

[inertkinesis at verizon.net]

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From:  <inertkinesis at verizon.net>
Date: 2006/07/21 Fri AM 02:56:10 CDT
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Live CD/DVD Doesn't Work?!?!

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by full hardware specs, but here are the basic specs of my system and if there's any other info that would be useful I can tell you easily:

AMD Turion 64 Mobile (ML-44) CPU
2GB DDR PC3200 RAM
2 x 256MB nVidia 7900 GS GPUs (set up for SLi)
17" WUXGA 1920x1200
160GB RAID0 array (2 x 80GB Hitachi 7200RPM SATA NCQ) (Ubuntu will not be installed on this array, for now)
nVidia nForce4 SATA  

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From: Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
Date: 2006/07/21 Fri AM 02:56:10 CDT
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Live CD/DVD Doesn't Work?!?!

Hello fellow Ubuntuner, I am guessing these problems are related somehow to your video adapter. I think we could be more helpful if you provide us with your full hardware specs... You can load LiveCDs with different options than the default (press F1 when you see the boot: prompt). Hope these pointers help... Amichai.

 On 7/20/06, inertkinesis at verizon.net <inertkinesis at verizon.net> wrote:This is my first time on this mailing list or any mailing list so bear with me if I do something too n00bish.

I'm interested in installing Ubuntu on an external hard drive for use as a second OS, but I want to give it a try first, using the Live CD/DVD. I have a computer with an AMD Turion 64 Mobile CPU (ML-44). I've downloaded and burned both the CD and DVD, both of the AMD-64 type. When I boot from them and press enter for the item at the top of the choices list, I get the Ubuntu logo, the progress bar, and the nice brown text underneath. Now, two different things happen, depending on whether I boot from the CD or DVD:

On the CD, it goes through a bunch of stuff, and then the brown text/logo/progress bar screen disappears and I get a blank screen with a command line cursor blinking in the upper left corner. After a few seconds it stops blinking and then nothing happens. Pressing the power button on my computer at this point does nothing.

On the DVD, it gets to a certain point in the loading process and all of a sudden the logo and progress bar are gone and I'm looking at generic gray-on-black system text. But things are still continuing to load. It gets all the way to the end and it says something like "Loading Kernel" and it gives me a cursor. I can type, press enter, etc, but nothing happens when I do any of that. If I press the power button on my computer, Ubuntu unloads everything and shuts down, ejecting the disk and asking me to press ENTER.

So, what is going on here? Am I doing something wrong? Can anybody walk me through it or suggest some alternate things to try?

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