Start with the small stuff
Check you boot order in the bios
Check you disc, make sure the burn was good, or burn another disc
After doing this I would head over to the ubuntu forums and check them out.
On 5/1/07, relztrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Because my dead-end job and teenage son don't provide me with
> adequate frustration, anger and disappointment, I decided to teach
> myself Linux. I was able to download and burn a Ubuntu Feist Fawn CD
> which supposedly is one of the easiest distros for newbies to cut
> their Linux teeth on. I put my CD in the drive, fire up the machine
> and eventually get the following screen:
>
> GRUB version 0.93 (~~~~~)
>
> [ minimal BASH-like line editing is supported...]
>
> grub >
>
> I hit TAB and get a list of commands, none of which makes any sense
> to a novice like me. Obviously I don't know the GRUB command syntax.
> Is there a tutorial for using GRUB? I am running an old Dell Optiplex
> with an Intel Celeron processor, 256MB of RAM. I want to make this an
> exclusively Linux machine--no dual boot necessary. I deleted the
> partitions before attempting to install Ubuntu so there is no vestige
> of Windows left on this machine. I can still boot to an A> prompt
> with a Windows boot floppy.
>
> Anyway, I don't want to get too specialized with my questions if this
> is not the correct forum. Perhaps there's another group specifically
> for Ubuntu.
>
>
>
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