yloeep
December 2nd, 2008, 05:36 AM
I have an older Compaq Presario S5140WM that has successfully run Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 and Xubuntu 8.04 flawlessly. The system has a 2GHz Celeron processor and 768MB RAM. I tried booting the 8.10 Live CD the other day, and after a seemingly normal boot process ended up with a black screen with a mouse cursor. I have used the CD before, so I believe that it is good. I then went ahead and rebooted and installed anyway from the Live CD boot menu on a separate partition formatted as Ext3. The system now boots to the logon prompt, I enter my username and password, and the system continues to boot. After about 15 seconds the hard drive stops being accessed, the display is orange with a mouse cursor that moves with the mouse, and the system appears to be hung.
Any ideas? 8.04 continues to work perfectly.
TIA, Bill.
Any ideas? 8.04 continues to work perfectly.
TIA, Bill.