For those of you old enough to
remember the Li'l Abner comic strip, I'm beginning to feel
like Joe Btfsplk, the hard luck character who had a small, dark,
rain cloud perpetually hovering over his head.
I downloaded the latest 64 bit Ubuntu ISO and burned the image to
disk. Booting from the DVD, it appeared to start, then went to a
blank screen with a small icon at the bottom. After 5 or 6 minutes,
I got tired of waiting and pushed the power button. Skipping some of
the trials, it had apparently altered the boot order in setup to
boot from the CD/DVD drive if there was something in it--not that I
mind, I prefer that. anyway. If the DVD was in the drive it would
boot from it and display some text options. One of the options said
(approximately) run Ubuntu without installing. I selected that
option and pressed enter as instructed. Blank screen time.
I have an HP box with a Samsung Monitor (1920 x 1080).
First Knoppix, then Ubuntu. These used to be my sure fire, never
fail distros.
FWIW, an old Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit) CD loads & works fine in live
CD mode.
I'd sure like to know what the problem is. Any suggestions
gratefully accepted.
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