Mal Wanstall wrote: > I boot up from the Desktop Install CD and it runs through its paces, I > get the black screen with the white writing letting me know things are > going OK then after that's all done I get a black screen and it stays > there and never goes away. After a while the CD stops spinning (so I > assume it's all loaded) but I still can't see anything...however it > hasn't frozen because when I attempt to reboot the computer the white > writing comes back on telling me its invoking the shutdown procedures. Sounds like an X problem... Try adding "nofb" to your boot parameters. I used to have to do that with Red Hat and Debian (although Ubuntu figured it out on it's own). This disables framebuffer support, which sometimes confuses laptops.
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