Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop Freezes in Boot Sequence

[pckrfan75]

Hi all,

First and foremost, thanks in advance.

Now for the problem, I am attempting to boot Ubuntu off of a USB drive. The USB drive was created via the USB creator in the .iso file dowloaded from Ubuntu. But for some reason when I go into my BIOS and boot from the USB drive, it spits out one line of syslinux and copyright information ending in "et al" and then a flashing cursor but doesn't go any further. I would provide a screenshot but that isnt an option at the moment with not being able to get past the first line of booting.

Also, I have never used Ubuntu as this is my first attempt at running it and it is obviously not going the best.

Thanks much in advance,

Joe

[pckrfan75]

Not sure if this is significant, but the exact text that it freezes at is:

SYSLINUX 3.82 2009-06-09 EBIOS Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al

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