Problems using live CD on new machine

Gordon gbplinux at gmail.com
Tue Jun 30 14:25:46 UTC 2009


Richard wrote:
> I have a new AMD Phenom 2 x4 on an Asus 4GB M4A78 Pro board. The
> chipset is AMD 780G / SB700.  I Googled this before buying the machine
> and found statements that people had run linux satisfactorily with
> it, and I understood that Asus was OK.
> 
> When I try to boot the machine from the 9.04 CD I get the main Ubuntu
> menu OK, but when I try to run the CD live, I just get a black screen
> with a blinking underscore cursor at the top.
> 
> I have tried the various options offered like safe graphics mode,
> ACPI=off, noapic, nolapic, but they don't solve it.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what else I might try (e.g. BIOS settings).
> 
> The board has built-in graphics (ATI-based, I think).  Is it likely that
> this might be a problem?  Might adding a pci graphics card be the
> solution? Or might I need a proprietary driver?
> 
> One other peculiarity with my setup is that my HDs are running off a
> pci disk controller, but that shouldn't stop the live CD from running,
> should it?
> 
> Does anyone else have this M/B + processor hardware?
> 
> - Richard Kimber
> 

Are you sure the CD is OK? Have you run the Disk Check when you first
boot up from it?
Have you tried the CD in another machine?

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