Highly Dissapointing Ubuntu 10.04 installation (no safe graphics mode????)

[twola]

Ubuntu 10.04 installation takes me to a blank (monitor away) screen.
I have followed Google searches and forums and have tried all the nomodreset & radeon.setmode=1 stuff on command line and have failed. If you press F6 on the menu and play with the options you would see that half the options do not work even if you select them. Why even have "nonodreset" as an option when it does not do anything?

Did the developers not once wonder that having installation that is not based on grapic driver (that is text based or safe mode based) would be the way to go. Go ahead and Google "Ubuntu installation blank screen" and you will see that this is a pretty massive problem.

[ajgreeny]

What graphic card do you have; obviously an ati, but more detail needed.

[davidmohammed]

"nonodreset"


I hope that was just a typo - nomodeset !

[twola]

Actually I was able to get past that by following the tutorial on:
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup-workaround/

Now am stuck at another anomaly which is the read error http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9606348
(http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9606348#post9606348)