BelowGrade
May 20th, 2008, 05:38 PM
I have verified the Md5SUM on my installation CD. (8.04 LTS Server). It works properly on my newish HP Athlon dual-core system. But the system I want to put it on is a 6 year old Athlon with IDE disks and an ATI 7500 video card.
On that system, the CD boots and I pick the language. Then I select "Install Ubuntu" from the menu. The screen goes black with a blinking cursor at the upper left.
When I add " priority=low BOOT_DEBUG=2" to the boot command line I get the following repeated three times:
[: 2--: bad number
I have tried "fb=false" and "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" to no avail. Clearly there is something about my hardware it doesn't like. But my old software, some ancient Gentoo, still boots fine on it.
On that system, the CD boots and I pick the language. Then I select "Install Ubuntu" from the menu. The screen goes black with a blinking cursor at the upper left.
When I add " priority=low BOOT_DEBUG=2" to the boot command line I get the following repeated three times:
[: 2--: bad number
I have tried "fb=false" and "DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text" to no avail. Clearly there is something about my hardware it doesn't like. But my old software, some ancient Gentoo, still boots fine on it.