LiveCD won't run on my Toshiba notebook

[Peter Smout]

On 11/08/14 00:34, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 08/10/2014 05:40 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 11 August 2014 00:03, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I was planning on using it to test a distribution upgrade to 14.04 so I
>>> decided to reinstall 13.10 and then do the upgrade, but the liveCD I
>>> used to
>>> originally install Ubuntu will not run.
>>
>>
>> There is no point installing 13.10 now. It is no longer supported.
>>
>> Burn a fresh copy of 14.04 and go straight to that.
>>
>
> The only reason I was wanting to reinstall 13.10 is to see how an in
> place upgrade to 14.04 would work.  My main machine has 12.04 on it and
> I am trying to decide if I want to upgrade or fresh install.
>
> If need be I will try an install of 14.04 directly.  However I have my
> doubts that it will work, as the CD that I used to originally install
> 13.10 no longer will work.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>
Hi,

Don't know if this is related, but I had a similar issue on a friend's 
laptop (very old Toshiba laptop) and that could not handle a kernel with 
PAE (physical address extension) so we ended up with a lubuntu 
derivative  whose name escapes me ATM ;), based on Ubuntu 12.04 it is 
likely to be the last time that laptop can be upgraded as most new 
versions have PAE by default ;(

As I said, don't know if it relates to your troubles, I'm just putting 
it out a a theory!

Good luck

Pete S