kubuntu 7.10 is really suks to install !

[roger at rogerchrisman.com]

> what about a situation where you boot  from the liveCd? everything goes
> great, but the end u've the black screen like I...  how doing u go from
> there? I had no success with this any suggestions?

Alt+F1
If your screen goes black during Kubuntu startup, hit Alt+F1 to
display the startup output in real time.

And give it some time to start up.

*Weirdly* my Compaq Presario X1000 laptop takes 3 minutes during start
up to reach the Kubuntu GUI login screen under this black screen
condition but takes only 1 minute (2 whole minutes less) to reach that
same GUI login screen when I start up and display the startup output
by hitting Alt+F1 when the screen goes black after Grub. Maybe those 2
minutes are wasted behind that black screen while Kubuntu tries but
fails to display the regular blue Kubuntu startup splash screen (just
a guess).

Mounting extra dives?
Default Kubuntu startup also wasted 45 seconds more on my laptop doing
fsck on sda1, my Windows XP FAT partition, and then mounted it. I
don't need that partition auto mounted. I can mount it manually with
"sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1" if I want it mounted. I normally do
not want it mounted. So I commented out the corresponding line in
/etc/fstab. Now my laptop starts up Kubuntu, to the GUI login screen,
in 1 minute when I display startup output by hitting Alt+F1, otherwise
it takes 3 minutes (due to 2 minutes wasted struggling with the black
screen, I guess).

So if you have a black screen issue after Grub during startup, try
Alt+F1 at that point.

Roger :-)