ReeRD
April 10th, 2010, 08:29 AM
Hello,
I'm trying to migrate to Ubuntu 9.10 x86, however, I have a couple of problems.
My hardware: ASUS F5RL laptop with an ATI 1100 Xpress GPU.
1. After several clean installs I've noticed that Ubuntu usually hangs during the FIRST boot after the installation. I see the message "GRUB loading", then I see the white Ubuntu logo, then the screen flickers and stays black. After a hard reboot, I'm presented with the GRUB menu and after selecting the default kernel Ubuntu is loaded without any problems. Subsequent reboots work fine, too. So the problem is the initial boot. What is the cause of it? I suspect it to be related to video initialization (I may be wrong). There was a case when Ubuntu did NOT hang upon the first boot (but that happened only once out of maybe 5 times).
2. Once I noticed some error displayed during the boot process which disappeared quickly and didn't seem to have any negative effect (the OS loaded fine). It was displayed below the white Ubuntu logo and had references to fstab and something being "not ready" (I think). Is this something I should be worried about?
I'm trying to migrate to Ubuntu 9.10 x86, however, I have a couple of problems.
My hardware: ASUS F5RL laptop with an ATI 1100 Xpress GPU.
1. After several clean installs I've noticed that Ubuntu usually hangs during the FIRST boot after the installation. I see the message "GRUB loading", then I see the white Ubuntu logo, then the screen flickers and stays black. After a hard reboot, I'm presented with the GRUB menu and after selecting the default kernel Ubuntu is loaded without any problems. Subsequent reboots work fine, too. So the problem is the initial boot. What is the cause of it? I suspect it to be related to video initialization (I may be wrong). There was a case when Ubuntu did NOT hang upon the first boot (but that happened only once out of maybe 5 times).
2. Once I noticed some error displayed during the boot process which disappeared quickly and didn't seem to have any negative effect (the OS loaded fine). It was displayed below the white Ubuntu logo and had references to fstab and something being "not ready" (I think). Is this something I should be worried about?