My son has a laptop that I installed Ubuntu on as dual boot. The other OS is Windows XP, that runs perfectly and has for some time now. I had a hard drive, installed it, installed Windows XP (SP2) on it, then put in the SAME Ubuntu disk I used on my son's computer, and it went through the ENTIRE installation/setup process.
Then when I went to reboot the computer, I was expecting to have to select which operating system, but it goes straight into trying to boot up on Ubuntu, it goes through the initial splash screen, displaying information about my system, then the screen goes black and the cursor is blinking in the top left-hand corner of the screen, then goes off and comes back on screen one or two lines further down, but nothing other than the cursor is on the screen, and that is where it stays. It will not do anything else. I can press Ctrl+Alt+Del, and it will reboot or I can manually power down, but it comes back to the same point. This is home built computer that I have been using for a long time. I just want to get away from Microsoft, other than dual boot for iTunes.
My hardware specs:
⠀AMD 64 processor 1.8GHz
⠀Asus motherboard
⠀Asus video card in AGP slot
⠀Sound card
⠀2 or 3 GB RAM
I love Ubuntu, is there anything to be done?
No comments:
Post a Comment