Black screen, flashing cursor

[Yizi]

Hi,

I have just wiped my whole hard drive to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on it, and now as soon as i power it up it passes the POST screen and black screen shows up with a flashing cursor. I bliv it should say no operating system and pick the USB which has Ubuntu installation on it.

I have formated the hard drive to NTFS, the system is Samsung NC10.

[tachuela]

You have to format ext4 if you want to install Karmic

[Yizi]

You have to format ext4 if you want to install Karmic

Do i have to format the HD to that or delete that partition from the HD (HD is clean by the way)?

[Yizi]

You i don't think the issue is the HD, something has gone wrong, from my experience if the HD is blank rather then flashing cursor it should say no operating system...

[Yizi]

Bump

[Yizi]

For some reason it started loading but now it stops after the Ubuntu load

[tachuela]

How much RAM do you have?

[Yizi]

1gb

[tachuela]

What is your Video Card and Display?

[Yizi]

The spec should be here:

http://www.umpcportal.com/products/Samsung/NC10/NP-NC10

[altjx]

I'm having this same issue. Anyone??

[tachuela]

Try the Alternate CD ( text installer )
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors

[presence1960]

From the Live CD at the menu screen hit F4 & select safe graphics mode. For more info see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Or use the alternate text based installer (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#alternate) as tachuela suggested.