10.04 Installation Troubles

[Ogredemir]

2 weeks ago I installed 10.04 using the same ISO disc I am trying to use now. Other computer consisted of - ASUS P5GDC-V Deluxe mobo, P4 3.0 w/HT, 2 GB DDR400 OCZ platinum, radeon x300 PCIe graphics card and a sony dual layer dvd r/wr drive, WD 500GB SATA HDD.

Now using the same disc Im trying to install ubuntu 10.04 on this rig.
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo, Athlon XP 3200+, 2GB DDR 400 OCZ platinum, Radeon 9800XT AGP card, WD 500GB SATA HDD. ROM drive is set to first boot priority. It seems like it starts to boot, screen gets purple tinted background, and the small symbol/ guy show up at the bottom. Then the rom drive has some activity but the screen just goes blank and nothing ever happens. Any ideas?

I read somewhere that some older DVD rom drives can have trouble reading burned ISO images so I took the working ubuntu HDD out and put it in this computer but the same exact thing happened. Thanks in advance for any help!

[reed9]

It's probably a graphics driver issue. Try booting using the generic vesa driver. More info here.
Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" Blank Screen at Startup : Workaround | Ubuntu Tutorials

[devils casper]

It's a Graphics Card problem only. In case none of the workaround works, download Ubuntu Alternate Installation CD. It has Text based installer which works fine in most of the machines. It is easy to install Graphics Card driver after successful installation and fix display problems.

[hatebreed]

seems like there are alot of problems with the graphics not being detected. Can't they just change the installation to install the vesa by default and then when you get to the desktop change it to whatever driver you need? I would think this would save everyone alot of headache and they wouldn't need an alternate installation cd.

[reed9]

seems like there are alot of problems with the graphics not being detected. Can't they just change the installation to install the vesa by default and then when you get to the desktop change it to whatever driver you need? I would think this would save everyone alot of headache and they wouldn't need an alternate installation cd.

But then they wouldn't be able to have their pretty boot graphics.

But seriously, it isn't all Ubuntu. Many distros have been and are suffering through these problems. I had a hell of a time with OpenSuse 11.1 on a laptop with an ATI card, which Ubuntu 9.10 handled without problem. The X.Org drivers have been going through a lot of changes with the move to Kernel Mode Setting, the maturation of the open source Radeon and Nouveau drivers. There are problems whether you stay with the older X.Org releases or if you incorporate the newer releases.

[hatebreed]

no i'm not saying to get rid of the graphical installer but rather to just use the vesa driver as default and then have the user install the graphics driver they need through something like the hardware drivers app in ubuntu. It would detect the correct driver and then you could install it there. If there was a problem at least you can troubleshoot it alot easier if you have the system up and running rather than trying to figure it out through the install process. P.S. there are options on the livecd boot screen to change things like using vesa driver or turning off acpi, etc.

[devils casper]

Although "vesa" driver is Generic but it doesn't work with all Cards and support 2D only. As reed9 mentioned already, developer wouldn't be able to use cool boot graphics with it.
X Server is being upgraded, developed very rapidly and there are very few cards which are not supported by default or without tweaking.

[Ogredemir]

So I tried what you said and it worked, sort of. Pressing F6 on the logo screen brought me some options. I pressed F6 again and selected nomodeset then I was able to boot from CD using the "test ubuntu" option or whatever (i forget the exact name) Once on the desktop I clicked the Install application and Everything was installed. However, I don't understand how to change my GRUB file. The problem is it still will not boot without booting from CD and I can not save any changes with that option. Im not very familiar with Ubuntu this is literally my first go around so sorry if I am missing something easy. Thanks in advance for any/all help!

[hatebreed]

boot up the system with the livecd and go to your hard drive and find the grub.cfg, should be /boot/grub/grub.cfg. then add the nomodeset to the end of the linux line of ubuntu.

[devils casper]

What does machine display at startup up when you boot up from Hard disk?
Have you installed Ubuntu in your Hard disk successfully? Boot up from LiveCD and execute this in Terminal :

sudo fdisk -l

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.