Ubuntu 14.04 & AMD FirePro(tm) 2270

[Niles Rogoff]

Try removing "quiet" from the boot arguments and see if you get more
information

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:34 AM, Ian A Taylor <iat at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:

> Pete/Colin
>
> Thanks for reply
>
> To answer questions
>
> I checked the install media and no faults were found.
> Which,, since I have utilized this usb stick, several times, to successful
> install 14.04 ; is what I would expect.
>
> When machine boots to the grub menu
>
> If you select ubuntu
>
> you see
> one line I have forgotten
> then
> loading initial ram disk
>
> then the screen goes blank
>
> pressing cntrl-alt-2 gets me nothing
> (I had tried that althou forgot to say so, sorry)
>
> also pressing esc shows nothing on screen
>
> So I have no idea how to load the new driver
>
> Is there a way to add it to the install medium
>
> Regards
>
> Ian Taylor
>
> On 04/11/14 18:50, Pete Smout wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Nov 4, 2014 4:54 PM, "Colin Law" <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 4 November 2014 16:39, Ian A Taylor <iat at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > > Sir/Madam
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 onto my desktop.
> > > >
> > > > My desktop contains an AMD FirePro(tm) 2270
> > > >
> > > > I have Scientific Linux 6.5 working on this machine no problems
> > > >
> > > > My usb install sticks works
> > > > When I boot to it and test Ubuntu 14.04 it works ok
> > >
> > > Did you run the image test?  Boot into the stick and hit a key when it
> > > shows the keyboard icon at the bottom and select the test image or
> > > test files or something similar.  Can't remember what it is says
> > > exactly.  Probably it will be ok since it installed, but worth
> > > checking.
> > >
> > > Colin
> > >
> >
> > In my capacity of minister for stateing the obvious, have you tried
> -ctrl-alt-F1 whilst the screen is blank? This should drop you to a shell
> (full screen terminal)
> >
> > Also try hitting escape whilst it's booting to see the text boot log and
> note any errors!
> >
> > Pete S
> >
> > Minister for stating the bleeding obvious ;D
> >
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>
>
> Thanking you.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
>
>
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