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alan_daniel
October 31st, 2008, 08:39 PM
I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with a Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM, and for some reason, it will not install or even load Ubuntu. I have tried installing 8.04, but it locks up during the kernel loading stage at the very, very beginning of the process.

Now that 8.10 is out, I decided to try again. I have tried several different CD's, including the Alternate CD, and every time it's the same thing: the computer boots up into the Ubuntu menu and waits for me to select what I want it to do. As soon as I do, it waits a few seconds, and the screen goes black and restarts the computer.

I ran a Memory Test on it using the Ubuntu cd, and it worked and passed it. Thanks for any help.

joegera
September 6th, 2009, 05:04 PM
I have the same exact problem, and I even tried to install 9.04. The installation stalls after the 'language selection'. Editing the boot parameter list did not help either. Am I forever doomed to be a Windows user?