kudzu
May 12th, 2012, 07:15 AM
Hey everyone,
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on my Dell Latitude D630, and I've decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04. I've quickly run into a problem, though, as despite my creating a live CD and then setting my computer to boot from the CD drive, I can't get the live CD to boot at all; I end up staring at a black screen, with a nothing but a cursor blinking in the upper-left hand corner. This screen won't accept any commands, and all I'm able to do is press the power button on my computer to turn it off.
Here's the background on how I got this far: I downloaded the ISO from the Ubuntu website, confirmed the file's md5sum to be the same as the md5sum listed on the Ubuntu website, and then burned the ISO onto a CD using the lowest burn speed possible (it ended up average 11x). I downloaded the md5sum file from the Ubuntu release page and then checked my newly-created Ubuntu live CD against the md5sum, and everything was said to be ok.
I don't recall having any problems of this nature when installing Ubuntu 9.10 a few years ago. I've searched these forums and the rest of the web for solutions, but they seem to primarily be addressing problems that occur after one gets to the live CD start-up screen. I can't even get that far. There were several mentions of the possibility that the video card could be messing things up (which would make some sense to me, seeing as how I had the video card replaced about a year ago), and that I should set my computer to "nomodeset," but the suggested methods for doing that assumed that I could get to the live CD screen, which I cannot. I did see one suggestion that mentioned opening GRUB and adding "nomodeset" there, but my GRUB file was completely empty. I copied someone else's GRUB information that they had posted in the thread, including "nomodeset," and restarted, but nothing changed.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions that you all might have for me.
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on my Dell Latitude D630, and I've decided to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04. I've quickly run into a problem, though, as despite my creating a live CD and then setting my computer to boot from the CD drive, I can't get the live CD to boot at all; I end up staring at a black screen, with a nothing but a cursor blinking in the upper-left hand corner. This screen won't accept any commands, and all I'm able to do is press the power button on my computer to turn it off.
Here's the background on how I got this far: I downloaded the ISO from the Ubuntu website, confirmed the file's md5sum to be the same as the md5sum listed on the Ubuntu website, and then burned the ISO onto a CD using the lowest burn speed possible (it ended up average 11x). I downloaded the md5sum file from the Ubuntu release page and then checked my newly-created Ubuntu live CD against the md5sum, and everything was said to be ok.
I don't recall having any problems of this nature when installing Ubuntu 9.10 a few years ago. I've searched these forums and the rest of the web for solutions, but they seem to primarily be addressing problems that occur after one gets to the live CD start-up screen. I can't even get that far. There were several mentions of the possibility that the video card could be messing things up (which would make some sense to me, seeing as how I had the video card replaced about a year ago), and that I should set my computer to "nomodeset," but the suggested methods for doing that assumed that I could get to the live CD screen, which I cannot. I did see one suggestion that mentioned opening GRUB and adding "nomodeset" there, but my GRUB file was completely empty. I copied someone else's GRUB information that they had posted in the thread, including "nomodeset," and restarted, but nothing changed.
I'd really appreciate any suggestions that you all might have for me.