Ubuntu :: Installation Not Showing Anything?
May 8, 2010
I've got a laptop on which I want to install Ubuntu. I've downloaded the disc, burnt it (no errors, verified) and it boots up (with the CD in), shows a short BIOS-style copyright notice, then just a black screen with white text flashing across the screen a thousand times faster than I can read it. If I press a key, the background changes purple, then back to black if I press another key.I can't even SEE the installer. It's kind of like what happens if you set an old CRT monitor to a resolution it can't handle - but the laptop is an LCD that does 1280x800 maximum. What's going on?
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Aug 7, 2011
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Apr 18, 2011
When I try to connect a projector to my laptop (already running) and hit the fn+f7 (the designated button for switching screen), nothing happens. I see "no source found" on projector screen and my laptop screen works perfectly. Now if I restart the laptop with the projector connected, I see all the intial booting messages on the projector screen (not on my laptop), then the gnome login screen appears on both the projector screen and laptop (when the login screen appears on laptop it looks like it has lower resolution than my usual laptop resolution). But immediately after I log in, my laptop screen goes blank, and projector screen becomes the only active screen.
If I restart without the projector, again all normal operation on laptop screen is restored.
I feel like I am missing some very silly options. Any help is appreciated.
Here is the output of xrandr when the laptop is connected:
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Jan 31, 2011
i want to install Debian through LAN network, Here i have configured dhcp, tftp and pxe for net-booting.I have followed following link instructions for netboot: URL...For me network booting is working with the help of PXE but i am not able to get the option NFS for installing Debian through NFS,I am getting option only to install through mirrors and manually enter of the mirror.
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Mar 28, 2010
For months Ive been having problems with SWF files (Bloons tower defense 4 - online game) not showing / loading up. I have removed SWFDEC from my PC (Ubuntu)..
The game DOES go now
However - when I try 7move a piece (Put a new weapon on the sxcreen - The picture doesn't stay where I put it (& doesn't shoot the bloons...). I can press 'start' & the bloons do move around the screen - but I can't shoot them.
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Sep 12, 2010
I have dual-booted Windows XP and Ubuntu. Because Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't have the required proprietary drivers for my system, I chose Ubuntu 8.04. The installation procedure went well, the drivers are there, everything's perfect but... there's a problem with the GRUB menu that appears just after launching my laptop.
When I first installed Ubuntu it showed Ubuntu (and some letters and numbers), another instance for recovery mode, some memory test lines (I guess there are two of them) and Windows XP.
But after I used the software updater in Ubuntu (to make it up-to-date), the grub bootloader shows two more lines - and those are the same as the first two - Ubuntu (with some letters and symbols) and Ubuntu recovery mode.
Why are those duplicates there? I've never installed another Ubuntu OS on my PC. Because at the moment I have two Ubuntu and two Ubuntu recovery mode lines .
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Oct 17, 2010
I'm having problems trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 onto a partition that I have created. I boot from disc, select that I want to instal it to a partition and when I get to the list of available partitions, it is not listed.
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i just installed ubuntu 10.10 im using it now but my 2nd partition that got all my backed up files on is not showin up so i ask how do i get to use it ? and another thing is when i was installing the backup partition said it has no MB used ?
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I have ran the installation of Ubuntu (10.10) on my Acer Aspire computer, I chose to wipe the disk and use only linux, however after installing and restarting, I get some sort of terminal/command line and not the actual operating system. I did not install Ubuntu Server and this disk worked on another computer (actually the one I am typing this on right now).
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I have both 8.10 and 10.10 installed on my hard drive, but whenever I boot the GRUB (I believe it is GRUB Legacy not GRUB2) only shows 8.10. Is there any way to get it to see my newly-installed 10.10?
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Dec 13, 2010
I'm using Meerkat in my Inspiron 1525... 160gb hard disk...
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Dec 18, 2010
My laptop came with Vista and I added Linux Mint 6 (based on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex) all is good for a year or so. Added Ubuntu 10.10 to my desktop, loved it, wanted to add it to my laptop...oops.
Installed the main version from a LiveCD, did the the easy multi-OS installation.
GRUB-0.97 is what boots my system though looking at boot script I do have GRUB2 somewhere.
Currently, my boot options are:
1. Mint 6
2. Mint 6 (recovered)
3. Mint 6
4. Mint 6 (recovered)
5. memtest 86+
Other operating systems
6. Vista/Longhorn loader
7. Vista/Longhorn loader
Sda7 is where Ubuntu should be installed. GPARTED says its ext3 file system and bootscript says ext4.
I did find the forum post on purging and installing GRUB2 though I'm not sure if that's what I need to do, or try to reinstall Ubuntu w/o also doing partition resizing at the same time.
The output from my bootscript:
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Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================
=> Grub 0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #5 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.
[Code]....
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I tried to install yo install Mac4Lin theme on Ubuntu 10.04 to transform visual style to Mac following this tutorial: [URL]
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I tried to uninstall theme from recovery mode but didn't help.
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Jan 14, 2011
i did ubuntu 10.10 install in windows and something must have gone wrong since in the preboot menu the ubuntu was visible but could not boot [a windows boot manager message came up immediately on selective ubuntu]i reinstalled it and now have 1 windows 7 and 2 ubuntu. when i select the ubuntu in the an other boot screen [GNTU or GNU come up [2 ubuntu options 2 windows] when i select the normal ubuntu on both the screen flickers and nothing shows up.How can i remove both ubuntu installations and start all over again?ideally without removing windows.
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Mar 23, 2011
I just installed Kubuntu 10.04. My monitor support up to 1680x1050 resolution but Kubuntu allows me to only choose up to 1360x768. How can I fix this?
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May 5, 2011
my hard disk is 320gb and i think i made a mistake while booting ubuntu ,since it is showing only 100gb space .
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May 6, 2011
I just installed ubuntu 11.04 via wubi. the installation appears to have gone well but ubuntu doesnt appear as an OS choice when i boot up.
Its not a timeout issue as it is set to 30sec and i can see my other options (windows and a recovery option). the only thing i can think of is that my computer has a separate partition set up for recovery and i think that is screwing things up.
Here is my boot.ini:
My only guess is that since the recovery partition is the first partition that its causing problems.
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May 22, 2011
my pc is an AMD w/ nforce chipset mobo and nvida card.What I did is select the noapic and acpi=off and it booted fine and I was able to install Edubuntu. The system booted fine except when I'm already on the desktop, I can only see the wallpaper. no icons, can't do anything. I booted on rescue, there's no problem. I can do normal things. and by the way, nvidia driver was already installed.
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Apr 30, 2010
I was dual-booting XP/Win7... Uninstalled Win7 and reset boot loader with XP's Went to install 10.04 for dual-boot and it is showing that loader as "Widows 7 loader"
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May 5, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10. The Update Manager originally showed the update to Ubuntu 10.04 and I pressed the update button. Midway through the update, my internet died so I just cancelled the update. My internet is working again and I'm trying to update but the update manager won't show the update button. I've pressed check a bunch of times and installed all the other updates but I can't see the distribution update.
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Dec 6, 2010
At first I thought it was a fluke, but it happed on another computer I was a bit late in updating. I'm running 10.04 lucid 32 bit on both computers.
After running the update, everything ran fine. The script ran update-grub and everything seemed ok. However when I rebooted, my laptop booted into GRUB and only showed windows and the recovory partition. Desktop would boot strait into windows with no selection (I knew how to fix it for the desktop since it happed a few days later)
When it first happend on my laptop, I scrounged around trying to repair the OS list, but nothing worked. Eventualy running "grub-install" with the "--root-directory" option on a live CD fixed it.
I'm not sure what is causing the problem, but I think I remember there being an update to GRUB when I ran the updater. The fix works, just a bit of a hassle, but I thought I would bring it to someone's attention in case it happens to them.
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I'm not very experienced in working with Ubuntu. I did try it using Wubi to install and that I liked very much. But now with the latest version (10.10) the wubi installer isn't showing every option. How do I get the old interface where you can install it alongside Windows? The first attachment is what I get when opening wubi.exe and the second one is what I would like. That is a 10.04 version.
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May 2, 2011
I was using Ubuntu 10.04 and ran the upgrade. System > About now says I am now using 11.04. However, System > Administration > Update Manager says New Ubuntu release '11.04' available > Upgrade. Should I run the upgrade again, or is there a quicker way to fix this?
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May 26, 2011
I reinstalled Natty yesterday and then installed Fedora on a separate partition.
I now havedouble the menu items in GRUB2 for both of these.
I ran the update grub command in the terminal and it goes smoothly, but the extra menu items still don't go away.
Puzzingly the menu items point to the same partition on the drive as their clone. Both of the Fedora menu items point to sda8
For example.
tl;dr:
How can I remove menu entries in GRUB? I searched but could not find a reliable answer other than re-running update-grub.
How could I remove GRUB and replace it with Plymouth? Ubuntu Software Centre actually shows Plymouth as "Installed" even though it does not run on startup.
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