9.10 Live CD Won't boot

[slacklin]

Ive been running 9.04 for some time on my desktop, and ran the upgrade to 9.10, but i lost my sound among other things. So i figured i would do a clean install and downloaded the 9.10 livecd x86 disc this morning. The disc does load to the menu, asks me which keyboard layout etc. When i select either option.. Run or Install i get a black screen with a blinking cursor and thats it. Any idea why the new 9.10 live cd wouldn't boot whereas my 9.04 installed fine (except for fakeraid issues)? Thanks.

[slacklin]

I would like to add that the same problem exists with the 64bit live cd also.

[mechro]

Did you check the MD5sums of the file you downloaded and the disc you burned?

[tuxxy]

You could try the alternate CD but it is beta software and these bugs can be expected.

[slacklin]

Did you check the MD5sums of the file you downloaded and the disc you burned?

I did not, however its pretty unlikely that both the i386 and 64bit ISOs i downloaded were both corrupted in the same fashion to create duplicate errors on both of them

[slacklin]

You could try the alternate CD but it is beta software and these bugs can be expected.

Understood. Is there a way i can check an error log of some sort to find why its freezing at this point?

[mechro]

I did not, however its pretty unlikely that both the i386 and 64bit ISOs i downloaded were both corrupted in the same fashion to create duplicate errors on both of them

True. I'm always in a rush to appear stupid.

[guzz20]

Hi, I'm having a similar problem, my live cd won't boot when I choose to "try without change the computer", I did the md5 to the iso and all seems fine, at the begining I thought it was checking the disc for errors before boot, but Ubuntu has never done that anyways (that I know).

HP Pavillion.

Ok I found the problem, for some reason the CDs had a problem, so after 2 CD+RWs and 5 burns I finally got it working .

[bmbufalo]

I too am experiencing this exact same problem on a clean install of x64 version. Anyone found any solutions?

[Lynx2112]

Here is what i have. I am fresh out of ideas.
I have an AMD Phenom Quad Core with 4 Gigs of ram and 2 sata2 HD's 500Gigs

I have been running Kubuntu 9.04 for several months now. I have been keeping it up to date when ever an update comes out etc.

I have had no issues. This is the first update that has failed to work
9.10 completely hosed my machine.

Issue 1: the install had broken packages and failed to install correctly. This caused me to reboot the machine which failed to boot because it was unable to mount / recognize the UUID's of the HD. I was able to get into a recovery shell and do a DPKG --configure -a. This was able to go back in and reinstall the broken packages.

Issue 2: The latest kernel 2.6.31-14 won't boot, it hangs. I was able to determine that it is hanging on the line that says
io scheduler CFQ registered.
it looks like all the schedulers are registered correctly. I was able to go back to the last kernel and start the machine like normal.

Issue 3: Now that i am in the machine my sound doesn't work. I was also able to determine that this older kernel was able to identify the cards and devices as device 1 instead of device 0 so i have /dev/dsp1 /dev/audio1 etc. All the applications are looking for sound on the 0 device.

So what do i resolve since the sound is the only thing messed up right now, i could fix the sound. However could it be because the sound modules and drivers were installed for the 2.6.31 kernel instead of the 2.6.28 kernel. So it would be logical to boot the new kernel to fix it, but that wont start. I finially desided to to reinstall the ubuntu cd and start from scratch, The CD will not start. I can not do the install or the check out ubuntu CD's

I have been able to get some sounds working, ubunu start sounds and amorak. I know the drivers are good. Firefox and anything else seem to faile.

I also reinstalled packages related to the sound and the kernel and they have had no effect on the performance of the machine.

I would really appreciate your help in trying to resolve this issue.

Thank you