[rockballad]

Hi there,

I'm installing Ubuntu 7.04, 64bit. But it's stuck at the very beginning. I'm seeing the sceen:

* Setting preliminary keymap... [OK]
* Preparing restricted drivers... [OK]
* Starting basic networking..... [OK]
* Starting kernel event manager...[OK]
* Loading hardware drivers... _

It's stopped here for a long time. Could you guys tell me how to do now, please?

Thanks so much!

[briealeida]

It sounds like you're just booting it. Do you have a 64 bit processor?

[linuxphile]

Try booting with the following option: acpi=noapic

[rockballad]

@briealeida: Yes, here is my configuration:
- AMD 64 AthlonX2
- NVIDIA

Someone said that it's AMD Athlon 64 Dual core that causes the problem...

@linuxphile: Just a silly question, how to boot with the option you said? I didn't see any command line screen to pass this option.

Thanks you all and waiting for your reply...

[rockballad]

Oh yeah. I'm downloading the text based CD installer. Let's try if I can pass parameters...

[rockballad]

I installed it successfully. But it can't load at the first time. The screen of "ubuntu" loading is stopped at about 50%. Don't know how to do now. I left the defaults last installation.

[marketraise2007]

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[rockballad]

Thanks, I've heard about it this morning. I'll give it a try now.

Good day.

[rockballad]

Now I installed well, but couldn't log into graphics user interface (X windows?) I had to boot in recovery mode, login in command line. Don't know how to continue here. xrandr doesn't work: "Can't open display".

Could you tell me how to turn the graphic mode on? Thanks so much!

[rockballad]

OK, I figured out. Just add these options when you install and boot, it'll be OK:

noapic irqpoll noirqdebug

- When you install, at the setup menu (wait 30s), press F6 and add above option. Install normally.

- When you boot (first time), press ESC to get boot menu. Select [Ubuntu, kernel xxxxx-generic]. Edit by pressing 'e'. Select [kernel /boot/....], add above option. Press 'b' to boot. OR

open a terminal type:-

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

then go to the bottom of the document and look for the grub boot options and look for something like this:

"title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.20-16-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=16badbe3-91d7-4ba1-9446-e874976aea45 ro splash noapic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-16-generic
quiet
savedefault"

then add the string "irqpoll noirqdebug" into the kernel option so you end up with the new line that looks like:-

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-16-generic root=UUID=16badbe3-91d7-4ba1-9446-e874976aea45 ro splash noapic irqpoll noirqdebug

then look or search for a line that is something like:-

# defoptions=quiet splash noapic

and add the new flags to it so it looks like:-

# defoptions=quiet splash noapic irqpoll noirqdebug

so the flags get carried through each time the kernel is upgraded.

(Get from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ighlight=v6000 - Thanks soapytheclown so much! )

Have fun!