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[ILuvMeSomeTux]

I have installed Xubuntu on an older computer that has been wiped. It is a Compaq Armada. I have no idea what the specs of the system are other than the 20 gig hard drive. It "installed" Linux Xubuntu and I took out the LiveCD. It goes through the usual boot as follows:
Compaq screen
Initializing Intel Boot Agent 2.6 build 004
Grub Loading stage 1.5
Boot from HD 0, 0 ext 3
This it goes to the Xubuntu screen and the bar slides back and forth and then it gets stuck not even a 1/4th of the way.
It will stay like that until I turn off the computer.

[Jonathan183]

Try boot without splash option ...
at grub menu press escape to exit graphical boot menu, then select Xubuntu menu option, press e to edit and select kernel line, press e again to edit and remove words splash and quiet from the line, then press enter and then b to boot ... does system boot?

[ILuvMeSomeTux]

I pressed esc at Grub Loading and it took me to a menue with 3 options, none of which said Xubuntu. It says Ubuntu 9.04, kernal 2.6.28-11-generic
Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86t....so I pressed e to edit and this what is says:
uuid dd450a41-e70e-45a6-9746-a8121903f325
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=dd450a41-e70e-45a6-->
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet
So, I pressed E to edit and deleted "quiet" and it rebooted said, 0.000000000 ACPI BIOS age 1999 fails cutoff 2000 ACPI=force is required to enable ACPI. Then goes to the Xubuntu screen and again, not even 1/4 of the way it sits. I hope that wasnt to much information =-)

Thanks,
Heather

[ILuvMeSomeTux]

Well....I take that back....after letting it sit for some timee, I come back to find a bunch of udeve-event[938]: 'path_id /devices/virtual/block/ram1' abnormal exit
'vol_id --export/dev/block/7:6' abnormal exit
path id......ram11 abnormal exit
vol id...block/1:1 abnormal exit
path id ram14 abnormal exit
vol id block 1:14' abnormal exit
path id ram3' abnormal exit
vol id block/1:3' abnormal exit
paht id ram7' abnormal exit
vol id.....block 1:7' abnormal exit
path_id /devices/virtual/input/input0/event0' abnormal exit
*Loading kernel modules... [ok]
*Loading manual drivers...
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