tried live-cd tonight and nothing...

[rolf]

Daniel Robitaille Wrote: 
> > > I have finally tried the live-cd tonight for the first time.  It
> was
> > > done on a machine that already runs Ubuntu.
> > >
> > > And litterally nothing happens.  The cd initially boots into the
> grub
> > > menu.  Then no matter which option from that menu I choose, it
> > > initially starts booting and the last thing I see (but very
> briefly)
> > > is the line with "initrd", then the screen becomes black and then
> > > nothing: no HD activity, no cd activity; it just stays like that
> until
> > > I hard-reboot the machine.
> > >
> > > Anyone has an idea of things I could try to try to get it to boot?
> > 
> > Have you tried burning a new CD?  Verify the md5sum of the .iso and
> try
> > burning at a lower speed.
> > 
> 
> I have now done a few more  tries, at various speed, from writers on 2
> different computers.  I don't think it is the fault of the media.
> 
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You may be right.   I just burned the RC2 .iso at 4x and another at 2x
and got the same results you did.  I burned on an XP machine using
Nero, and on an ubuntu warty box using cdrecord.  Same boot issue here
that you describe.


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rolf