installing 10.10

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 10/22/2010 11:06 AM, piper.guy1 wrote:
> I posted this originally to the forums but had no luck getting resolution.
> 
> I have been having trouble installing 10.10 onto 2 Dell machines, both
> of which have good hardware as they were both running either Windows
> XP or Centos previously with no problems.
> 
> After about the nth time I finally got Ubuntu to install on my Dell
> GX150, but I only can get a desktop when I enter safe mode. Otherwise
> the whole system freezes indefinitely if I don't log in that way.
> 
> Does anyone have some advice? I've installed 10.10, and I also tried
> installing 10.04 and then upgraded to 10.10, again both ways with the
> same result...no destop unless in safe mode.
> 
> Note: Yes I have burned the CD at the slowest speed.
> 
> As a sidebar question, what can't I do in safe mode? I haven't figured
> that out yet, but I have been using it much.

The best thing to do when you finally get into safemode is to start
viewing logs and see where the problem is.  Without more information we
can't start helping you. You can also disable quiet and splash and
enable boot logging /etc/default/bootlogd and /etc/default/grub