Install / Boot issues

[Marius Gedminas]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 10:09:40PM -0600, keith dewitt wrote:
> ran Ubuntu 8.10 live cd a few times. Decided to install. During
> partition install, turned off computer. Needed more info on
> partitioning. Got a book, got more info, decided to run live cd again.
> It stalled on boot up. Formatted HD, put clean install of WinXP, ran
> through alternate cd, got through the installation. Computer reboot
> that was required after installation and I am back to same problem.
> 
> I get to the splash screen when the orange bar goes left to right,
> next splash screen where bar moves only from left to right,sometimes
> the bar will stop less than 1/4th the way, other times it will finish
> all the way but then I get a blank screen and no blinking light
> showing any HD activity. Let it set for almost 2 hours once to see if
> boot would continue.
> 
> I have spent many hours trying to get around this, so now looking for
> help. I figure since I was once able to get to the desktop on live cd,
> surf the web, it shouldn't be a hardware/driver problem but....
> Checked the .iso, hash, the cd, memory, did a new dl of .iso,made a
> new disk, double checked the disk, etc.

Have you tried booting in rescue mode?  What are the last couple of
messages printed on screen?

> After I started to have problems this message came up:
> Bios age (1999) fails cut off...acpi=force is required....
> 
> I added acpi=force under the f6 option.
> 
> As of now, the latest cd I used is Kubuntu, so that is what's
> installed on the HD.
> 
> Computer specs:
> Pentium III 497.8 mhz
> Chip set: Intel I440bx
> RAM: 512mg
> Video: Matrox Millenium g200 agp (open source driver)

Marius Gedminas
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