installation problem
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Sat Sep 27 19:11:08 UTC 2008
Karl Larsen wrote:
> Francesco B wrote:
>> Hello!
>> I am completely new to this list and to Ubuntu and hope that I can get
>> some assistance. I wish to migrate from Vista (uuuugh!) to Linux and I
>> received the installation disc for Ubuntu 8.04.1. I followed the
>> instructions to install it inside Windows and rebooted. I chose to
>> boot with Ubuntu. The screen with the Ubuntu logo appeared, but at
>> this point the progress bar kept running without results. After a
>> couple of minutes the pc restarted. Attempts to boot with the Ubuntu
>> CD in the drive are completely ignored.
>> Any suggestion?
>> My hardware: Dell Inspiron 530 with 4GB RAM and 500 GB Disk.
>> Thank you in advance for any help!
>>
> Unusual. Did the loader ask you for a way to load the Ubuntu
obviously
> and did you select a dual boot?
He installed from "inside Windows" - it's a wubi install.
Francesco: when the boot menu comes up, type "e" on the ubuntu line,
then "e" again on the "boot" line, remove "quiet splash", press <enter>
and "b", and it should boot in a much more verbose mode - which might help
explain what happened.
--
derek
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