Upgrading from Hardy

[Gregory Gamble]

Dear Nils

For my video card ... I get this info:

$ sudo lshw -C display
  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       ...

My PC is a Dell Inspiron 531 S which is an AMD Athlon 64 machine.

I didn't have any joy with trying to install Precise from USB ... I got as far as a coloured screen but unadorned
otherwise. It just seemed to hang. So this means I have not had any success yet with installation from USB stick.
I think I'll try burning two DVDs with Precise and Trusty and see where that gets me ... and after that maybe
I'll think of buying a new PC with USB 3 tech.

Regards,
Greg G
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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Nils Kassube [kassube at gmx.net]
Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 4:41 AM
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Upgrading from Hardy

Gregory Gamble wrote:
> Dear Nils
>
> Thanks for all the assistance so far. I thought I'd let you know how I
> was getting on.

Thanks for the feedback.

[..]
> Anyway, I managed to install a working Lucid system.

Well at least that's a new starting point. :)

> So next I tried to install Trusty from the boot-usb stick, but I just
> got a black screen.
[..]
> so I downloaded a slightly later version and
> used the same method of creating a Trusty image on a USB stick. This
> one worked ... or at least it gave me a screen where it gave me the
> option to install like Lucid, so I went through the same process ...
> but partway through the screen went all funny and that was that.

What video card do you have in that machine? I have two machines with
Intel graphics which also showed a funny display (after the upgrade to
xenial) and there I could avoid the problem with an additional grub
config line in "/etc/default/grub":

GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text

However that would not help if you can't start the live image because
there is no grub involved and I have no idea what would be an equivalent
kernel option.

OTOH you could add that grub option to your current lucid system and
then upgrade the system to precise and trusty with do-release-upgrade or
updatemanager. But of course I can't guarantee that the grub line helps
against your funny display.


Nils

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