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

[Johann Spies]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 04:19:19AM -0500, inertkinesis at verizon.net wrote:
> 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 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?

I have recently bought my first AMD-64bit Athlon.  I used a
breezy-server-install-cd to do my installation  just because there was
one in the office.  I have then upgraded to Dapper through the network.
After installing the Dapper 2.6.15 kernel and rebooting, I could not
boot - the same symptoms as you had above.  

I then wrote a Dapper live-dvd and that would also not boot on this
machine.  I have tried a lot of different options like compiling my own
2.6.15 kernel from the Ubuntu-sources and in the end I had success using
a Debian 2.6.16-2 kernel. 

I could al the way boot the breezy kernel, but not any of the 2.6.15
kernels from Dapper.

Regards
Johann
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