On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:25:21PM -0000, KLaus wrote:
>> I cannot test any Linux live-distro!
>> I like to test an Ubuntu Live cd/dvd but on my Windows 7 64-bit machine but failed.
>> The DVD is booting properly but the Installation ends up with a black screen every time.
>> By the way this happens with all live-distros
>> I have an Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 motherboard, an AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 970 Processor and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics.
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> What other live distros have you tried. I would recommend trying Fedora's liveCD. Mint, though very similar to Ubuntu, sometimes works when Ubuntu
> doesn't. Does the gigabyte board have an NVidia card. Due to various political reasons, and possibly legal ones, Many versions of Linux aren't able to supply NVidia drivers.
Geez Scott, I know you're getting to be a bit up in the years, but he
said, right there in the OP that he's got an nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
;-)
More importantly, it may help if you try passing the paramter acpi=off
and see if disabling the various bits of ACPI helps... that's a pretty
common issue on some chipsets... and that will at least get you a
place to start. In general, Linux just works on many/most systems,
but there are plenty that have their issues. Unfortunately, I can't
really tell you how to do that because it can vary from live distro to
live distro.
Also, you could try just hitting the Escape key when the Live CD
starts booting the kernel. A lot of the distros today use a graphical
boot sequence and hide startup messages. In many cases hitting
escape will force the system to display the boot messages and if it's
hanging, you could see where, or at least see the error message that
is being thrown.
(And for the record, Scott's a friend and we rib each other like that a lot)
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