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Smetsers
May 2nd, 2012, 10:13 AM
I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo A1645 notebook working perfect with Ubuntu 11.04 (32 bit) and 11.10 (32 & 64 bit). Installation was a piece of cake and except for the wireless driver that had to be installed manually (Broadcom 4318; b43-fwcutter, firmware-b43-installer) everything worked out of the box.

I decided to do a clean install of 12.04 Precise Pangolin so I erased my HDD (shred) just like I did before all previous installs and tried to boot the 12.04 (64 bit) desktop-CD. After getting to the language select screen I selected the "install" option. Some moments of a screen with "Ubuntu 12.04" and the dots beneath are then followed by a screen with all kind of notifications (see picture below) and a some kind of freeze of the system, no response on keys and the only option is to shutdown.

http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/installatie/grafische-desktop-niet-op-te-starten-zowel-live-cd-als-alternate/?action=dlattach;attach=16091;image

I then tried to install Precise Pangolin by the text-based alternate-CD which worked quite well but after the necessary reboot the system freezes again with a blinking underscore or a screen with notifications as shown above. I then tried to boot the desktop-CD by the Live-option with options nomodeset, acpi=off and vga=771/???. All results in a freeze of the system. I also tried to boot with "xforcevesa" when pushing escape at the language select menu but this gave "Could not find kernel image: xforcevesa". Furthermore I tried to boot a live Xubuntu-CD but this also gave a freeze with "Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64) * Documentation https://help.ubuntu.com/) on the screen. So I assume it has nothing to do with Unity.

Meanwhile I cannot find a solution in all the threads on the internet so I wonder if anyone has a clue what's going wrong? I think it's very strange Ubuntu 12.04 isn't working while 11.04 and 11.10 were working perfect on exact the same notebook. The notebook has a AMD Turion 64 MT-28 CPU and 1GB RAM (870.4 MiB after subtraction for video chip?). The video chip is if I'm right a SiS M760.

I wonder if anyone has a solution how to get the Live-CD option working while I reinstalled 11.10 to maintain productive.

aaazman
May 2nd, 2012, 11:20 AM
I am no expert. Try Ctrl-Alt-F7.

Smetsers
May 3rd, 2012, 03:22 PM
At which moment should I hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 aaazman?

I haven't been able yet to start up any desktop at my laptop. I guess it has something to do with the new kernel. Does anyone have a clue what changed in the kernel? Until now I was only able to boot in a text-mode.

aaazman
May 7th, 2012, 12:37 PM
When you boot your Ubuntu PC (in my case my USB flash drive,) you will get your boot messages, Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3, or Ctrl-Alt-F4 should get you a terminal. However, Ctrl-Alt-F7 should get your X Desktop. By the way, precede this keystroke with a choice of a terminal: the previous keystroke combination (i.e., Ctrl-Alt-F1.)

jadtech
May 7th, 2012, 01:18 PM
from all I am reading its very possible that 12.4 ubuntu is to much for it to really handle well even if you manage to install it maybe try the lite version ...

westie457
May 7th, 2012, 01:28 PM
Try this work around.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11883375&postcount=6

Smetsers
May 8th, 2012, 06:15 PM
Try this work around.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11883375&postcount=6
Hooray, this worked! I was able to start the live-CD function by adding "b43.blacklist=yes" as well when using the graphic installation. I saw the message "b43/ucode5.fw not found" but I assumed this wasn't the problem while I also saw this when installing Ubuntu 11.10, which caused no problems.

So actually solved for me! I experience 12.04 being even faster than 11.10 on my notebook!