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chechr
April 7th, 2012, 03:15 PM
Hi,

I've created a boot USB as follows:

- From Windows7 Home Premium
- insert USB (kingston 4gb)
- Run Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.9.0
- choose image: ubuntu-11.10-desktop-i386.iso
- checked the format box
- seems to run well, no errors.
- I eject the USB drive.

I plug the USB into the read port of a brand new build.
- Asus F1A55-M LE Motherboard
- AMD A4 3400 APU
- 4 Gigs of RAM
- No hard drives installed

When I power on the machine I get the "Installer boot menu" screen.
The menu options are:
-Run ubuntu from this USB
-Install ubuntu on a hard disk
-Test Memory
-Advanced options
-Help

If I pick "Run ubuntu from this USB" I get a few screens full of system messages, too fast to read them, and then a blank screen with the machine hung.

Any ideas what's wrong?

Thanks,
Chris

2F4U
April 7th, 2012, 03:21 PM
What graphics card do you have? Some ATI and nVidia cards cause problems. Can you try the nomodeset boot option? It is accessible through F6 in the boot menu.

chechr
April 7th, 2012, 03:34 PM
No graphics card, the AM A4 APU has built in graphics ( Radeon HD 6410D)
I tried F6 on the boot menu, no response. I tried all the F keys, nothing.
Under advanced options there is only a 'back' choice.
Thanks

chechr
April 7th, 2012, 03:46 PM
Hmmm, if I press TAB I can edit the menu entry. The 'run ubuntu' menu has the following command:

/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper persistent initrd=/casper/initrd.lz splash_--

Should I change something?

chechr
April 7th, 2012, 03:53 PM
Might be a problem with the AMD A4 APU. Here's a comment from a reviewer:

Cons: I've had quite a bit of trouble with Linux OS's. Live CD's hang and won't load video. Until the Linux community addresses this, this will be a problem. I was able to get Ubuntu 10.04 to run, but not Ubuntu 11.10 or openSUSE 12.1.

That would really suck, I'm building this machine specifically for linux.

2F4U
April 7th, 2012, 04:12 PM
From this thread it looks as if using nomodeset could be worth a try:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/installing-any-linux-on-amd-a4-3400-box-925292/

While the guy from the thread uses 12.04, it could also work with 11.10.

chechr
April 7th, 2012, 04:17 PM
Excellent, looks promising. Thanks.