Okay, I enabled legacy support and then F9ed to a boot manager with my external drive. Now the 32-bit system is installing :P.
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Okay, I enabled legacy support and then F9ed to a boot manager with my external drive. Now the 32-bit system is installing :P.
Thank you.
Merely enabling legacy boot is looking very promising...
After spending a couple of days trying to install a 64 bit system, I discovered that some proprietary software I must use only works in 32 bit Ubuntu. So I have to downgrade.
But after 64-bit ...
I gave up on 12.04 and installed 12.10 instead.
It works perfectly.
Regardless, thank you so much for your help!
Okay, now I see the purple loading screen with Ubuntu logo for about 1.5 seconds and then it dumps me back to command line.
But "sudo start lightdm" now returns different output:
and then it...
output of sudo start lightdm:
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
dosfsck 3.0.12, 29 Oct 2011, FAT32, LFN
/dev/sda2: clean, 163694/30285824 files, 2655466/121129472 blocks...
I installed a 64-bit 12.04 Ubuntu on a new hp pavilion dm1 laptop. After a fresh install, the boot failed at a Purple Screen of Death. I then used recovery mode to edit grub, replacing "quiet splash"...
Here's my alsa info,
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=d95c4a576407cc2c00c34e72d5d4da8d84045967
I got stuck on the guide :(. I am a newbie so bear with me.
step 12
$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
Aa
$ sudo aplay -l
[sudo] password for Pavonis:
aplay:...