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Chronon
October 29th, 2009, 11:13 PM
I downloaded the torrent of the desktop AMD64 ISO, verified the md5sum and burned it using k3b. K3b said the burn was okay.

I boot, it lets me select my language and then any selection from the menu leads to a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner of the marker and no apparent activity beyond that. My processor is an Intel q6600, which I believe should be able to run in either 32-bit or 64-bit modes. I checked my BIOS and didn't see any switches for choosing 64 bit there. Any ideas?

It's a Dell XPS 630i, by the way. I see reports of people running 64-bit OS on this machine, so I don't understand the trouble here.

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Edit: I tried also with the AMD64 Ubuntu 9.10 LiveCD and it fails in the same way. I guess I'll just upgrade to the 32-bit version for now. I would still appreciate any insight folks can shed on why this might be happening, as I would like to make the transition to 64-bit in the near future.

By the way, I can boot to the hard drive from the LiveCD properly. It's the only function that doesn't hang with the blinking cursor.
Raiju
October 31st, 2009, 03:56 AM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1304744

D: dell xps630i and 9.10 x64 don't play nice together i am in the same boat but dont want to use 32bit when i have 4 gigs ram
lisati
October 31st, 2009, 03:59 AM
A big sigh of relief. So it's not just me messing up, I ran into similar (but not identical) trying to boot from USB memory stick on a Toshiba laptop (more specs available if required).
macogw
October 31st, 2009, 04:45 AM
Please check and see if updated BIOSes are available for your hardware.
Raiju
October 31st, 2009, 05:02 PM
i tried updating my BIOs but it was still a no go. :{
macogw
October 31st, 2009, 08:46 PM
Please file a bug. Make sure to include whether 9.04 amd64 worked and whether 9.10 i386 works. Thank you!
Chronon
November 1st, 2009, 11:00 PM
Pardon my absence. I did update the BIOS but still no luck.

The update worked fine, so I'm using i386 version of Karmic now. I would have to burn disks of both Jaunty 64-bit and Karmic 32-bit to be able to address those questions. I don't have the time right now, but I will get back to this when I am able.