10.04 install hangs on splash screen

**Flaming_Amarant** · August 31st, 2010

I had the same problem for over a month... after a lot of struggling, I realized that the problem was not with my video card / settings, or anything related. It was because of the mount in smbfs I had to my 1TB NAS (MyBookWorld). As soon as I changed it to NFS, everything was solved!

**littlepear** · September 2nd, 2010

Try Knoppix?

Originally Posted by bluetomgold

Oh dear.

Now I've gone and lost grub having just reinstalled Windows XP. I can't work out how to get a terminal prompt up even to restore it.

**dazfuller** · September 23rd, 2010

Just found this thread today whilst having problems installing Ubuntu 10.04 onto a new Dell M5010R. changing the boot options to:

nomodeset xforcevesa acpi=off

worked a treat, after I managed to boot I installed the ATI and Broadcom drivers and now it boots perfectly.

Thanks all

**gavarchand** · March 14th, 2012

Originally Posted by bluetomgold

Having loved using Ubuntu on my old Dell laptop I've been trying (failing) to install it on my Shuttle SB51G SFF PC for some time.

With the release of 10.04 and my increasing frustration with XP I've resolved to make this work. I want to keep XP on the machine for the time being but the main hard drive has a spare 20GB partition which should be more than enough for the install.

So I've downloaded the ISO, burned the disk. It boots up ok to the first menu and the disk passes the error check. However when I select either "install" or "run from disk" it comes up with the Ubuntu splashscreen and the flashing dots but soon hangs. The dots stop flashing and that's it.

I've had similar problems trying to boot from 9.x versions on this machine. My best guess is graphics issues (I'm currently using the onboard intel 845 graphics but also had problems with an Nvidea card I had installed) but am at a loss as to solving them...

Please help!

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