Installation fail

[Bradley129]

Sorry for bothoring the community with another one of Bradley's dumb questions haha but I wanted to test 13.04 do some testing provide some devolopers some tests and logs but for the life of me I can't get it install well I boot from USB use ran to edit add the nomodeset like I always have to do now press enter (to boot it from USB) it shows the Ubuntu slash screen like normal the little.menu dots is loading then all suddenly it freezes the little dots freeze white and there's a little Spinny cirlse thing in the top right corner and it never loads any ideas I would love to get this working?!

[ikt]

Sorry for bothoring the community with another one of Bradley's dumb questions haha

The only dumb question is one not asked

but I wanted to test 13.04 do some testing provide some devolopers some tests and logs but for the life of me I can't get it install well I boot from USB use ran to edit add the nomodeset like I always have to do now press enter (to boot it from USB) it shows the Ubuntu slash screen like normal the little.menu dots is loading then all suddenly it freezes the little dots freeze white and there's a little Spinny cirlse thing in the top right corner and it never loads any ideas I would love to get this working?!

What hardware are you trying to install it on and what iso image did you download?

[grahammechanical]

I sometimes have to put irqpoll into the boot paramenters. Other times I had to tick all the F6 options or some combination of them. Regards.

[ibjsb4]

I have had this problem in the past and found that just doing a "release-upgrade -d" from the previous version to be the easy way out.

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/server...upgrading.html

[ventrical]

Appears as if it is an obsoleted graphics card - no way to tell until we get some lspci info.

[Bradley129]

Its a hp dv6 it has a a4-3305m Dual core Proccesor which does support pae and a radeon 6480g GPU 4gb of ddr3 RAM and everything else is based off from the amd Hudson culture I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04.2 and its runs fine I was able to boot up install graphics drivers no problem okay 3d games everything so what seems to be the problem with 13.04?

[Bradley129]

I have had this problem in the past and found that just doing a "release-upgrade -d" from the previous version to be the easy way out.

https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/server...upgrading.html

But if I do that won't I risk my fallback 12.04 install?

[ventrical]

My next questions are:

1. Is it a zsynced iso or a daily raw image that you are using?
2. is it 64bit or 32 bit iso?
3. I assume VGA pallete snoop is off in BIOS?


I have 3 radeon systems and I have seen what you have described. I doubt you can get to terminal from where you are at.

if you are using 64bit iso then try 32bit , or , if you are using 32bit (and your system is 64bit capable) then try 64bit iso.

[ventrical]

But if I do that won't I risk my fallback 12.04 install?

I assume that this is correct. Unless you have a btrfs system format.

[Budovi]

You could install fresh 12.10 alongside your 12.04 and upgrade that safely

or I did not get something?