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[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Cuthbertson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Chase Douglas
> <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ratcheer@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Ok, I give up. I cannot get a working installation of Lucid on this
> > > machine. BTW, it was not the installation of the nVidia driver that messed
> > > it up. I deleted the Lucid partitions and reinstalled Lucid alternate CD.
> > > Then, when it attempted to reinstall the nVidia driver, I declined. I
> > > attempted to reboot Lucid and it will not boot.
> > >
> > > It is strange that it boots successfully at the end of Lucid installation,
> > > but then, even with no changes, it will never boot again.
> > >
> > > It appears that I cannot participate in this testing effort.
> > There's a known issue with plymouth that caused boot failures for people. It
> > is partially fixed as of some point yesterday with a new plymouth package.
> > You should try with the new package and/or by removing the plymouth package
> > to see if it helps you.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Chase
>
> I installed the new kernel 2.6.32.13 dated 2010-02-11 and it still
> will not boot. Then,
> I removed the plymouth package and it still will not boot.

That's too bad. Please consider opening a bug against the linux package so we can track the issue and try to get it resolved for you. We obviously don't want to ship Lucid with defects that cause it to not boot on some hardware.

Thanks,
Chase