[Ubuntu-be] Ubuntu Feisty - A little disappointed...

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 21-04-2007 om 20:34 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Stijn
Verslycken:
> I own a Dell Inspiron 6400 (in the States known as E1505), which is
> quite common and sold all around the world. This laptop has a Core 2
> Duo T7200 cpu, 2GB RAM, a 160GB Sata disk, ipw3945abg wireless nic,
> broadcom lan nic, ...and an ATI Mobilty Radeon X1400...
> 
> I started off by booting a Feisty Live cd. The kernel loaded, the
> fancy Ubuntu boot screen showed up and after a short while all
> activity stopped and my numlock/capslock/... leds started blinking: a
> kernel panic had occurred... Really cool :(

Do you know why the kernel paniced?  (And why the alternate CD didn't
panic, as it uses exactly the same kernel...)

Did you try to boot using the "safe graphics" boot option?

> I killed my system, rebooted into Edgy and burnt the alternate cd for
> attempt 2.
> The alternate installer successfully completed the installation,
> although I got X related questions during the installation about what
> screen resolution I wanted to use. This is something I had never seen
> before in any installation of Ubuntu or Debian... Once the
> installation was completed I booted the system and the first thing I
> saw was a Linux kind of a BSOD, asking me whether I wanted to see the
> X debugging output or not. Then I was confronted with an extremely
> user friendly login prompt... 

Well, the alternate CD isn't really supported for "unexperienced users",
but of course the live-CD should work.


-- 
Jan Claeys