[Nottingham] Ubuntu not booting.

[Steve Caddy]

On 21/05/10 17:51, Benjamin Crowe wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have just recently tried to install Ubuntu on my desktop I have tried both
> 10.04 and 9.04 but they both will not boot past a screen with a flashing
> cursor after what is supposedly a sucsseful install. My desktop specs are
> thus intel quad core, 4Gb memory, 250Gb HDD(which I install Ubuntu on) and a
> seperate 500Gb HDD for documents. I'm about to go off and try installing it
> with just 2Gb of memory in to see if that fixes the problem but if it does
> not is there anything else I need to think about doing?

I've seen something like this before, and it turned out to be a BIOS problem.
Adding the boot option "noapic" to the grub config sorted it out. Probably
won't hurt to give that a try.

Steve

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