12.10 Installation Fails

I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.10 AMD64 on my desktop computer with an SSD, an HDD, Asus Sabertooth Z77 and a Nvidia Graphics card. None of the previous forum posts had solutions that worked.

Here are two pictures I took of what it says with nomodeset (I still breaks with no nomodeset but everything on the other forum threads said to try activating it. Also, the image is fine, I checked the MD5Sum and it is correct. Anyway, here are the pictures, excuse the poor quality, I don't have a better camera around so this was the best I could do (typing it all out would be very time consuming).

http://s17.postimage.org/4du3uspyj/snapshot.jpg http://s17.postimage.org/3pl9bur8r/snapshot_001.jpg

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

your screenshot is a kernel panic.
i'm too lazy for browsing the web to get your hardware specs, and your bios/uefi config, so i let you find it first.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860020
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...14&postcount=9
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

What specs and configs do you need?

Some links.

UEFI, Windows on SSD, Ubuntu on HD ASRock Z77 Pro4 motherboard
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/10/10...d-ssd-and-hdd/


Asus UEFI instructions (except efi should be first partition, but must not have to be)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11842855

Some also need other/additional boot options, but that seems to vary by every vendor & model:
Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 with I7-3820
Needed F6 to set ACPI=Off.and nomodeset


[SOLVED] UEFI Boot Problems
quiet splash vt.handoff=7 rootdelay=90 reboot=a,w
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1857639

Other boot options also:

How to set NOMODESET and other kernel boot options in grub2
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

As it turned out, it was the optical drive. I unplugged it and it worked.