BAD kubuntu

[Trent Shipley]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Alan Dayley wrote:

> Are you able to get to the initial menu where it asks if you want to
> boot or install or etc.?  On that menu is a memory test choice.  It'll
> crank up memtestx86 and start testing your RAM.
>
> The problems you describe could be RAM issues.  Many times the system
> can run just enough to test the RAM and find such problems.
>
> Alan
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:32 AM, <tshipley at deru.com> wrote:
>> I tried to boot from a Fedora 11 live cd, but the boot quit part  
>> way through.  (The initial [GRUB?] splash screen comes up.)  Is  
>> there a shop in town that works with Linux? I live near ASU West.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my BlackBerry Smartphone provided by Alltel
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>
>>
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:17:06
>> To: Main PLUG discussion list<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Subject: Re: BAD kubuntu
>>
>>
>> Boot to live CD/DVD
>>
>> # tail /var/log/messages
>> # dmesg |more
>>
>> highlight/copy/drop to email for us?
>>
>>
>> On 7/30/09, Ryan Rix <phrkonaleash at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu 30 July 2009 12:17:40 am Michael Butash wrote:
>>>> but I've heard not
>>>> much has changed.
>>>
>>> You've heard wrong. KDE4.3 will be just as mature as 3.5 and with  
>>> a hell of
>>> a
>>> lot more features and future.
>>>
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Memtest86 passed.

So far people have also suggested the cause as hardware  
incompatibility, hard drive issues, BIOS (Dell's site does recommend  
updating the BIOS for my motherboard but their program won't run from  
a CD and I couldn't figure out how to make a bootable DOS flash  
drive), usb drive/video card/other card/any peripheral, acpi (I think  
this issue is fixed in newer versions of Ubuntu), and my personal  
theory that the problem is fundamentally caused by an incompatible  
combination of software and hardware.  Software-hardware problems  
would explain why over several kernel iterations some are stable and  
run beautifully while others won't boot.   Without the boot log it's  
all superstitious guess work.  If I had another Linux machine I'd do  
surgery and mount the problem system's drive to read the log.

I think RedSeven is going to get some of my money.