black screen when trying to install Ubuntu 10.10

[the_Terminator]

I have a Machine
Intel Celeron 325 2530Mhz
768MB DDR RAM
Geforce FX5500 nVidia 128MB
WD 320GB SATA

I have already XP SP3 and Open SuSe 11
I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 but everytime I started installation I got a black screen
with errors (__bad__semaphore blabla)
i tried more than one cd and all of them worked on other machines
please help me

[the_Terminator]

pleaaaaaaaaaaaaase help

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Same issue here.

I initially posedt this question in the testing section (now closed) about 10.10 RC. No real answer was attained. Still having the same iss with final release...

Can't get past the initial dialogue on install of 10.10. Goes to black screen and I have to do a hard reboot. Same when I try using WUBI. My system recently had the video card (nVidia 9800GT) and the power source go out. Had them both replaced. I now have an ATI card. I'm going to assume this is a video card issue. Any ideas?


My current desktop specs...

HP Pavilion Elite M9360F(KQ499AA)
Operating System - Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
Processor - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300(2.50GHz)
Processor Main Features - 64 bit Quad-Core Processor
Cache Per Processor - 6MB L2 Cache
Memory - 8GB DDR2 800
Hard Drives - 2 x 500GB SATA 7200RPM
Optical Drive - Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner with LightScribe Technology drive
Graphics - ATI XFX Radeon 4650, with 512MB dedicated video memory (DirectX 10 ready).
Audio - Realtek Integrated High Definition Audio
Ethernet - Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps network interface
Wireless Card - Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g/n
NTSC TV tuner, over-the-air ATSC high-definition Digital TV tuner, and FM tuner
[Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 (Model 78xxx, Combo ATSC/QAM)]
HP Media Center remote control with IR (infrared) receiver

[Rubi1200]

Hi guys,
have a look at these links and see if there is anything that can help:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeer...Known%20Issues
https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/install...eshooting.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen

[the_Terminator]

thnx guys
do you think is the problem with 10.10 version itself????

[Rubi1200]

It would really help if you could try and give us the whole error message and at what point in the process you see it.

Also, although this does not really answer your question, but have you tried 10.04?

[Clodzilla]

Rubi,
None of the links you posted helped. When I get the prompt line, the computer goes into a black screen after about 1 minute and I have to do a hard reboot to get back out.

Also, I tried 10.4, but I could not get the wired or wireless connection to work from it. I also tried the 64-bit version (since I have a 64-bit machine), but the install failed. Can ONE of these work?

Thanks!

[the_Terminator]

here is the problem:
when i get the first screen either I choose "test without install" or "install"
i get a black screen with long error message some content :
init Tainted: G D 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu
[ 5.609664] Call Trace:
[ 5.609723] ? printk +0x2d/0x35
.............. error 4 in libc.so.6
.................. panic+0

[Uncle Spellbinder]

I get no error message at all. Just a blank, black screen like my monitor has turned off.

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Rubi,
None of the links you posted helped. When I get the prompt line, the computer goes into a black screen after about 1 minute and I have to do a hard reboot to get back out.

Ditto for me. Just tried 10.04 same result. Tried several other distros with live CD's and the same thing happens. This must be an ATI issue in my case. So far, the only distro to boot a live CD has been Katonix. All Ubuntu variants have gone to black screen, a few non-Debian based distros have also gone black.

I think as soon as I can afford it, I'll be heading back to nVidia.