I have an older Gateway desktop computer that I installed a version of Ubuntu in 2010. For reasons I won't go into here I decided to uninstall it, which left the file structure on the disk--disks, docs, install, winboot and Uninstall-Ubuntu. The dual boot prompt remained also. Now, I would like to reinstall Ubuntu 14.10 but I cannot boot from the DVD (an Ubuntu DVD, not one I created).
What I get is a purple splash screen, no other text and then it goes to a black screen and text begins scrolling. This appears to be a script running that is identifying the hardware I have on this system. This hangs at an IR device and that is as far as I goes. I don't have an IR device installed but I have used an IR device that plug into the USB port.
This has been a problem for some time since I have tried to boot various versions of Ubuntu on this system with the same results.
I'm thinking that the previous version of Ubuntu (10??) that I had installed and then having gone through the uninstall process created this condition. Re-running the uninstall does not remove the Ubuntu folder structure from the disk nor does it fix the problem.
Any ideas are appreciated.
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