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citomaster
November 7th, 2008, 03:23 PM
Hello,

Finally I made the switch from XP to Ubuntu on my old AMD system. But I'm having some troubles installing Ubuntu. I took the image of ubuntu.com and burned it properly on a dvd. As a test I installed it on my main system, and it worked perfectly. Now it was my older system's turn, but then I stumbled across a problem. When selecting "Install Ubuntu", you get the loading bar, and when it finishes I get to see the wallpaper, but nothing more. After a time the cursor freezes, and the only thing I can do is rebooting. I've already tried to select: NOAICP and NOLAPIC, but it still doesn't work. I also get the message that the firmware of my (Broadcom BCM43XX chip) wireless NIC should be updated, but that shouldn't cause the problem, should it? The system is running on a AMD Athlon 850mhz cpu, with an old MSI motherboard.

I hope you can help me sort this out,

Citomaster

*EDIT*

Amd Athlon 850mHz
MSI MS-(Will check up soon)
256mb DDR RAM
80GB IDE HDD
Nvidia geforce 2 MX400

Pumalite
November 7th, 2008, 03:27 PM
Post your specs. Memory? Graphics?

dabl
November 7th, 2008, 04:51 PM
"cursor freezes"

How about Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F1 at that point? Do you get tty console? It might be hanging on your graphic card. There are a lot of "vga=" boot cheatcodes -- you might want to try vga=791, for example, or vga=788, for lesser capable graphics cards.

http://manual.sidux.com/en/cheatcodes-vga-en.htm#vga

Also, could the optical drive have an issue? You might want to clean the lens and try it again.

Pumalite
November 7th, 2008, 05:20 PM
With 256 MB of RAM you connot boot a Live CD; unless you make a 500 MB /swap partition ahead of time. I'd recommend you install XUbuntu.
256 MB of RAM or less>Xubuntu Alternate CD:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/8.04.1/release/

citomaster
November 7th, 2008, 06:06 PM
I'll download Xubuntu and try again, hope it'll work. Thanks for your help.