installation problem

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:35:56 -0400
"Mark Haney" <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> 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!
> > Sincerely
> > 
> > Francesco
> > UK
> > 
> 
> 
> It's possible the system's BIOS isn't set to boot from CD.  You need to 
> hit F10 at power on (I think it's F10 on DELL boxes) and select the 
> 'boot' tab.  (or option, Dell mucks with BIOS settings so much it's silly.)
> 
> That might get you an option to boot from the CD.
> 
> Although, are you sure the CD is bootable?  How did you get the media? 
> Download it and burn it?  It's possible the media isn't bootable (but 
> not likely).
> 
> You can also try hitting ALT+F1 to see if there is a linux console that 
> loads that will display boot information for you.  One of the console 
> sessions should display dmesg messages only, and usually that's ALT+F10 
> or F12.  You can try them all, one of them should work to display the 
> errors you are getting.  If you can post that output we can help you.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt -- Caius Julius Caesar
> 
> 
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
> 

I think you will find those messages on Ctl-Alt-F8 and Ctl-Alt-F1 in
Ubuntu. At least on all the versions _I have used_.

Good luck,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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