Live CD

[n8tron]

Hello everyone. I'm having problems with my live CD and was wondering if you folks could help. It works fine and loads, but when I hit enter to "try Ubuntu w/o installing" it restarts the system again. I checked the CD and I burned it correctly. Any ideas?

[yancek]

Did you do the md5checksum after download to verify it? Instructions are usually on download page.

Do other CDs work in the drive?

[n8tron]

Other CD's work, and this one does, almost. For some reason it just wants to restart the computer once I click the #1 option to try w/o installing.

[devils casper]

Have you tried same CD on other machine? Post your machine's specs here.

[n8tron]

What specs do you need?

[devils casper]

RAM, Graphics Card and Processor.

[n8tron]

512 ram, Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller [Display adapter]
Gateway FPD1530 [Monitor] (14.9"vis, s/n LIC32572112, June 2003), 2.40 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Not hyper-threaded

[n8tron]

It's a Gateway pre-packaged model. I don't know if the BIOS is messing with the start up. That's an area I don't have a lot of experience with.

[verndog]

When the cd boots, if you push F6 you can alter the startup.
Try removing "quiet --" at the end of the line and see if any error messages appear.

Also, if that doesn't work try adding "nomodeset"(without quotes).

[n8tron]

I guess I don't understand what you mean by "removing quiet". I tried to add nomodeset by checking the box, but it didn't change anything. It just reboots. Then I see the Gateway logo with the Pentium 4 logo, then it starts all over again. I get the purple screen, then it asks me to choose a language, I choose english, then option #1, then it reboots. I don't get it.