Ubuntu 10.04.3LTS CD1 not bootable

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 3 November 2011 16:35, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
> However, I have just tried to boot from that CD, in my laptop, an HP/Compaq
> NX5000, and it would not boot. It had a screen with the word Ubuntu, and
> about 5 or 6 litle boxes in a row underneath it, and the boxes lit up in
> sequence, and it cycled around doing that for a few minutes, and then the
> screen went blank and nothing else happened.
Hit tab, remove the "quiet" bit from the line and retry. Now you
should be able to see where it gets stuck.