What are the errors?  Where are you hanging?

When you boot into any Linux - you can start with nofb (no framebuffer) or nopcmcia or noacpi.

Did you try booting into safe mode?

Take your machine name and go to Ubuntu forums - search for others who had your issues.

Once you complete the installation, you can formalize your startup options as default passed to grub (or lilo).

If this is just a VESA Video card X11 issue, that's going to be solved in a similar manner.

Linux is like a good partner - it WILL tell you very clearly what it's problem is.  Boot into single user mode and check the logs!

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:19:10 -0500
From: bmike1@gmail.com
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: ubuntu 8.x woes

uubuntu won't even load onto my machine

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Stu <wien33@cox.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 23:59 -0700, jdawg wrote:
> I have notice more with v3, that I find my system "freezing" up, when a
> page doesn't load.
> Most of the time it is ok, but sometimes it becomes excruciatingly slow
> to click on any other app, or trying to cancel firefox.
> When firefox is eventually cancelled, the system goes back to normal.
>
> I am running firefox now using this command.
> nice -n +4 firefox, which seems to help.
>
> I wanted to know if anyone else has experience extreme slow-downs
> because of firefox 3.
>
> Jerry

       For the past week or so, I've been running Firefox 3.0.4 on Ubuntu
8.10,(HP laptop ze4400us) and haven't run into anything bad yet. In
fact, I have to say this is the first install of Ubuntu I have done that
I actually *like*! In the past, I've usually run Mepis, PClinux, or
Vector, and had a few issues with Firefox acting odd especially after
surfing Youtube, but this one seems happy enough, even with compiz
running in cube mode.
>

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