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Flarex
January 17th, 2010, 11:07 PM
I've never tried installing any other operating system on my desktop so I'm not sure if it's a 9.10 bug (probably not), but whenever I choose any of the options after the ubuntu cd has been loaded at startup it goes to a black screen with the underscore at the top, and promptly reboots.

At this point in time I can just boot back into windows or get to the same selection screen off of the cd.

Any ideas what's wrong? I've tried burning 3 seperate cd's and at the moment and trying to boot them on my laptop (but not working... hrm). I'm thinking about redownloading the iso in a couple minutes.

s.fox
January 17th, 2010, 11:16 PM
Hi,

I would try doing an md5sum to check data integrity. Here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM) is the page with the howto :)

-Silver Fox

Leppie
January 18th, 2010, 11:58 AM
yes, check the md5sum after downloading and after burning (at the lowest possible speed).