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[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Jimmy Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
> I am a vista user how would also like to use Ubuntu alond with vista. 
> I requested a live cd and it was delivered today
> I put it in my drive started the boot from the disk, entered english 
> on the ubuntu language menu and selected to operate
> without changing any of my files. I have used Ubuntu on my other 
> computer that runss XP, but I requestsd a lice cd because
> every time I try to boot Ubuntu on my Vista (32-bit) laptop, after I 
> make my boot selection from the Ubuntu menu, thhe screen
> stays black the whole time, I even hear the welcome sound but I don't 
> see anything. I thought this disk would work but it didn't.
> I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Y710, 17" screen, ATI Radeon HD 2600 256mb 
> graphics card, and 2 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz.
> Could somebod please help me, I reallly would love to us Ubuntu with 
> my Vista. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Maybe (at the boot screen) you could remove the option "quiet" from the 
boot command line (F6 option, I guess). Depending on what is going wrong 
you could actually have access to a terminal screen with some information.

L.

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