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Re: How to Get Informative Boot/Install

 

If I recall, the routine for testing the CD that is on the CD will report
failure.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Developers>Has the work-around for it.

Regards,

Phill.

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Andrew Woodhead <
andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When you see the First boot screen, press pace and you will get the normal
> text boot screen. You can now test the CD for defects. A slow burn and MD5
> success will pretty much garuntee this but it's worth a test. The same
> screen can test the ram.
>
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Lane Lester <llester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Andrew Woodhead <
>> andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Did you MD5 test the ISO?
>>
>>
>> No, but I just did, and it's correct.
>>
>>
>>> Did you burn as SLOWLY as you could?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, 8.
>>
>>
>>>  Have you checked the CD for defects?
>>>
>>
>> No, don't know how. How does one do that?
>>
>>
>>> Have you tested your RAM for errors?
>>>
>>
>> No, because I often install new distros, and I recently installed the
>> Ubuntu Minimal CD Alpha 2 without difficulty.
>>
>> OTOH, my fairly new motherboard has an nVidia chipset, which sometimes
>> causes problems.
>>
>> Lane
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Lane Lester <llester@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks, Andrew. When the nomodeset didn't work, I tried that post's
>>>> second option:
>>>> i915.modeset=0 xforcevesa
>>>> but it stopped at the same place, although with a small font.
>>>>
>>>> Lane
>>>>
>>>
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