<pre class="screen">Package: installation-reports Boot method: <How did you boot the installer? CD? floppy? network?> CD Image version: <Full URL to image you downloaded is best> <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download">http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download</a> Date: <Date and time of the install> 23:00 11/27/2009 Machine: <Description of machine (eg, IBM Thinkpad R32)> ASUS motherboard custom internal set-up Processor:AMD Athalon x2 64-bit 3.0Ghz Memory:4GB G-skill Partitions: <df -Tl will do; the raw partition table is preferred> 30.2gb ubuntu 209.8gb windows vista Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [E] Detect network card: [ ] Configure network: [ ] Detect CD: [0] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [0] Partition hard drives: [0] Install base system: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [0] User/password setup: [0] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [ ] Comments/Problems: i installed the Operating System after browsing around with the CD-bootable version of Ubuntu 9.10. after the install i restarted the computer like it asked and used the GRUB multi-partition set-up to try and use ubuntu but now it keeps asking for my "login" and "password" that i created in the install, that worked out fine, but now i cannot get any farther to starting up the operating system to the regular desktop like in the cd -bootable preview. <Description of the install, in prose, and any thoughts, comments and ideas you had during the initial install.> </pre>