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[Edited - problems still observed with 10.10 RC]

Symptoms:  Attempting to boot 10.04 from the LiveCD or from a fresh
install with the alternate CD, and 10.10 RC LiveCD, results in a hang
around the time the boot splash animation reaches the final 'dot.'  The
boot splash animation also comes up with a corrupt/'psychedelic'
palette.  The graphic stays frozen on the screen, the fan runs, and the
keyboard becomes unresponsive, making troubleshooting annoying.

Booting the 10.04 alternate CD to the console worked.  Somewhat
quirkily, an install from the 10.04 alternate CD also worked when
rebooted after the apparent hang, but something (a post-install script?)
got addled, because I can both reach the console or startx with no
problem, but dbus was not starting properly and gdm et al. refused to
work.  I looked around for the obvious culprit on *that* but couldn't
find it at the time, and now that I have returned to the problem I'm
focusing on getting 10.10 up.

Booting/installing 9.04 or thereabouts actually works, so it does not
seem to be an innate hardware problem.

Hardware configuration:
Dell Latitude D600 laptop; 512MB RAM; 1024x768 LCD with what identifies as a RV250; only hardware quirks are use of a UDMA CompactFlash card in place of a disk and use of a generic Realtek-based miniPCI wireless card.

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I had asked if someone could summarize the parameters necessary to turn
graphical boot off and watch dmesg/console up to the point that it
hangs; thanks to Gordon Hopper for obliging.

Using 10.10 RC on a USB stick [my CD burns have complained about a sense
error on one particular sector on multiple devices]:

- With default options, but the 'splash' and 'quiet' removed, I make it to:
 "* Setting sensors limits"

- With 'text', and the 'nomodeset' and 'acpi=off' boxes checked for good measure, I make it to:
 "* Pulseaudio configured for per-user sessions"

Somewhere between these extremes, it can freeze at the message between them, this being:
"* Starting Kernel Oops catching service kerneloops"

I have gone so far as to unplug the "HD" (a CF card in CF-to-IDE
carrier) and to attempt to set BIOS options as conservatively as
possible [but perhaps I have missed something].

This does not seem to be the best way to debug the problem.  Insight /
further suggestions are appreciated - surely there's a way to make
booting more verbose than this?

** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete

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Dell D600 + RTL8185L = livecd boot hang through 11.04a3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616097
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