[ubuntu-uk] My new computer won't boot Ubuntu ....

[Kris Douglas]

On 5 February 2013 23:16, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/13 19:28, Dave Morley wrote:
>>
>> Barry if you hit any key as soon as you see the keyboard that the bottom
>> of the screen you will see a menu and along the bottom you should see some
>> boot options try flipping a few of those and see if it boots. The other
>> thing you can try is enable legacy mode and set legacy as primary boot and
>> see what happens in legacy mode, treat the system like it still has an old
>> bios rather than UEFI
>
>
> I had it in legacy mode and still had the problem.  At the suggestion on the
> pcspecialist forum, I tried the nomodeset boot option and it boots 13.04.  I
> have to install and sort the graphics drivers.  Bedtime.  I'll work on it
> tomorrow.  Thanks guys for all your suggestions.

A wild guess, but do these run relatively new ATI graphics cards by any chance?


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