[Lancaster] Problems with Ubuntu 7.04

[Ken Walton]

Hi,

Weird! I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 on a Thinkpad T21 (1.1GHz PIII, 256Mb
RAM) and it works great. (The only problem I've had is with my PCMIA
wifi card, but that's a different story...)

If you press Ctrl-Alt-F2 when the Ubuntu logo comes on, you can watch
the starting messages, which may give you a clue as to where it's
getting stuck.

--
Ken Walton

On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 11:18 +0100, Ken Hough wrote:
> Hi Guys!
> 
> Can you help me with a problem that I'm having with Ubuntu 7.04 (and
> Kubuntu 7.04)?
> 
> I've installed Ubuntu 7.04 on an IBM Thinkpad T21 (800 MHz PIII, 384MB
> RAM) and all seems to be well except for one thing. Successive startups
> will either work or will lockup just after the Ubuntu loading progress
> bar reaches full span. The screen goes blank and I can't get any
> response via the keyboard). If the machine fails to start up on one
> occasion, it will definately startup on the next and vice versa. The
> effect is entirelly predictable.
> 
> This has been confirmed this over dozens of restarts and several
> reinstallations. I've also tried various boot incantations (such as
> acpi=off), all to no avail. I have the same effect with Kubuntu 7.04,
> and this was from a CD produced from an ISO image downloaded from the
> Ubuntu website. The CD was md5sum checked against the website value.
> 
> I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on another PC which I use for testing (500 MHZ
> AMD K6II with 384MB RAM). In this case, startup is reliable and without
> problems, but on shutdown, the PC power does not switch off.
> 
> I thought Ubuntu was the bee's knees wrt ease of installation. Never had
> this sort of problem with SuSE.   ;-)
> 
> I'm keen to get Ubuntu sorted for two reasons:
> 
> 1. Insurance against the Novell/Microsoft thing.
> 
> 2. I'm a beta tester for a neat cross platform image aquisition app.
> I've now got the app working on my main SuSE v10.2 system, but the
> standard setup for installation/testing is Ubuntu/Kubuntu 7.04.
> 
> Any thought's, or even better -- solutions.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Ken Hough
> 
> 
> 
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