Ubuntu 10.04 - Won't Load on Laptop

[Atavaka]

Hi. I've used several flavors of Ubuntu in the past but never had the opportunity to make it a primary operating system at home due to using EVDO for my internet. Have gotten around that now and have a laptop I'm wanting to use it on. I downloaded 10.04 32-bit edition and the netbook edition and can't get either of them to load.

The furthest I can get is to the splash screen with the 5 dots blinking, it loads for a bit (can hear the disc spinning up in the drive) and then it kicks to a black screen, the disc stops spinning and it hangs. I've let it sit for an hour and nothing ever happened. Happens on both discs, too. I managed to load and install OpenSuSE just fine but I really prefer Ubuntu to that (have a small harddrive, too, that is sharing space with a Windows partition and SuSE has a pretty big footprint.)

I honestly don't know where to start as far as getting Ubuntu to load. I can provide any information that might be relevant to getting it up and running. It's a Dell Inspiron 710m and I can provide any other specs that may be needed.

Thanks!

[readycarpenter]

ubuntu install disk has heavily compressed files, which makes it easier to get burn errors, it is really important to burn the iso using a very slow burn speed, this could be your problem, but also because of the heavily compressed files, it is a lot of work on your cd/dvd drive, your disk drive could also be failing.

try to re-burn the iso using the slowest speed available, or if your pc has boot from usb option, you can create a boot-able usb ubuntu install

cheers

[Atavaka]

I don't believe the media is an issue here. The drive has seemed to be fine and the disc will load in my desktop just fine. I'll give the USB route a go and see how that works out.

[Animal0307]

I have a similar problem. I believe mine is being caused by dvd drive itself not being set up right. I created a Usb boot stick with no problems but when I booted from it I had to wait for like 30-45 minutes( far from the 30-45 seconds I was expecting). And I am trying to test a couple of spare drives because I'm not keen on installing a dual boot yet as I am still learning. But the only problem I'm having is its really slow. Could just be my machine. Hope everything works out. Good Luck.

[Atavaka]

Okay, so, I've messed with half a dozen other things and found a way to get 10.04 on my laptop. What I ended up doing is loading 8.04 LTS and network upgrading and got everything fully installed.

Unfortunately, it still hangs, but I have more information, now.

Near as I can tell, X is where the problem lies. As soon as the x starts it hangs. I tried booting in to the recovery mode and ran X from there and boom- as soon as X starts the system hangs.

Does anyone have any advice on how I might work around this to get to the GUI? Or is there anything I can do to keep it from hanging? I can supply any information that might be relevant.

[lkraemer]

You could have downloaded and tried the Alternate Install CD.

lk

[keepingitcivil]

I'm getting this same problem on my Dell Latitude D505. I was able to install ubuntu using the alternate iso, but it did the same thing upon the first load (hung after the progress bar.)

[Atavaka]

I never managed to get it working. Went back to the 9 LTS and it works just fine. I guess I'll just wait until they get the bugs worked out before I give it another shot.

[efrens]

I'm confirming that the same error happens with this Dell Inspiron 710m I have with me. Exactly as described on the first post. But only with Lucid Lynx. Older versions work just fine.

[efrens]

Got the reason why so.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1476730

This user's fujitsu laptop has the same graphics controller Intel 82852.