Wotcha List,<br><br>Well I read up the link that was posted in reply to my original question, and also Steve Williams suggestion about downgrading it back to 10.04 (the LTS version, which had been working fine before the upgrading malarkey).<br>
<br>It doesn't seem to matter much what version I try, I can't install anything from disk and the package manager doesn't seem to support down grading in any way.<br><br>I did the download of both the AMD64 and i386 versions of 10.04.2 LTS, the md5sum's confirmed the downloads as good, and it doesn't matter whether I burn the disks on my PC or my Aunts, when we try to boot the disk(s), we get a basic splash that shows the 2 small icons at the bottom, we then click those (or hit enter), it asks about language support and we just leave that at English, then when it gets to the "what do you want to do" options (try Ubuntu without installing, Install Ubuntu, etc etc) we hit enter on whichever option, the screen goes black and after about 30 seconds to a minute, we get a page of startup dialogue that ends with a line that says about "Clocksource tsc unstable" and it won't go any further than that.<br>
<br>I've googled to see what that means, and hopefully what I might do about it, but it goes straight over my head. I've tried hitting F6 for the other options and tried it with no acpi etc etc, but to no avail. Selecting or switching off some of those options hasn't got us anywhere.<br>
<br>Whatever the "Clocksource tsc unstable" thing actually alludes to, it doesn't seem to stop us being about to get the PC booted, whether into windows, or into one of the older (previous linux versions, in "grub parlance") kernels. the 11.04 is installed, and working, but not with the actual 11.04 kernel version. With one of the older versions. The latest kernel version is, seemingly, suffering from problems with the nvidia driver. We can't boot into it to get to a CLI interface, as even if we did, I don't know what to do to get the vesa or whatever generic driver running to get a GUI, so we can see what's going on and try to install an older version of the nvidia driver to get it working.<br>
<br>I can't help wondering if this isn't something to do with the all new, shiny "Unity" desktop ? That will work with her PC, but booted into an older kernel (one from 10.04, as we had the same problems with 10.10).<br>
<br>Of course, none of this can be sorted out if I can't get one of the disk copies of 10.04 to install, to revert it back to it's original, working properly, state.<br><br>Does anyone have any ideas please ?<br><br>
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