Sony Vaio: Live CD and Install work, but restart freezes

[WASHAD]

I've happily finished a SWE course that required VS2010, and thus a new computer to run the hog.

Now that the course is done, I'm installing Ubuntu.

As the post title implies, the live CD works well and the install goes fine. I'm able to boot up in Ubuntu and do an update. After that, though, Ubuntu freezes on boot. It gets as far as the moving dots but freezes right after that.

I'm not certain how to begin to troubleshoot it.

SteveJ

[WASHAD]

Any help here? I basically can't use Ubuntu on my machine. I wish this were simply a case of reading the manual.

SteveJ

[WASHAD]

Ok, perhaps I can ask this question a different way.

During boot, can I get the text details of what is loading, so that I could better segregate the problem?