Won't Boot From Live CD in Windows XP

[Meganehmbee]

I'm trying to boot with my Lucid live CD on my Windows XP Pro so I can dual boot my system. I get to a black screen with a little rectangle at the bottom next to a a little guy in a circle and then suddenly my monitor goes to sleep and nothing I do can wake it back up.

I know the CD works because I used it to dual boot my Windows Vista computer.

Any ideas on how to make the boot work so I can install Ubuntu?

[ronnielsen1]

I'm not sure if this will work from a lucid cd or not but try pressing F6 and using one of the options below


What parameters to use?

Unfortunately, there is no sure fire approach when you have never done this before or are new to Linux in general. There are some very commonly used parameters, however, that can be tried, and will likely work.
Some boot problems can be fixed by simply removing the quiet splash-- at the end of the boot options line. If that fails, you may try some of the commonly used options listed below:


noapic nolapic
acpi=off
irqpoll
lapic pci=routeirq

One of the above combinations will very likely work on a machine that will not boot the live cd to a desktop for installation purposes.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootParameters