You should avoid comparing performance on different computers and different Ubuntu versions. It is wasted effort. Different computers have different hardware so you cannot expect it to be the same. Each was made to work with Windows and neither was made to work with Ubuntu. Ubuntu does not sit still. Big changes are made from one version to the next. With 10.04 they dumped HAL and moved to Plymouth to improve boot times. This causes problems for some computers with certain hardware. Plymouth hands over to GDM or KDM. In the transition from one to another the graphics driver may change from vesa to a better one.
What is likely happening here is that it is not finding a graphics driver or having a problem. with handing it over to GDM/ KDM. If this was my computer then I would boot into text mode by removing quiet --no splash from the end of the grub line by pressing F6 in grub. Then I might play with some of the boot parameters under F6 or google for boot parameters for Ubuntu. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions Roy On 28 July 2010 03:51, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > Hellow... > > I am an experienced ubuntu user, and I but I have come across a few > problems on the news ubuntu 10.04. When I downloaded the image and > burnt it with 8x speed, like I always do. > > When I boot, CD-rom stops and the screen remains blank, just AFTER the > splash screen dissappears. It remains blank at the point when the > desktop is to appear, just after the splash screen. I am using an HP > Pavillion laptop, the ze4900. However, the same cd worked on a dell > optiplex desktop, another old IBM desktop. Nothing like this has ever > happend with ubuntu 9.04 or ubuntu 9.10. > > So... this is what I did... while I was booting... I pressed ESC. > Then I pressed ALT+CTRL+F1, which brought me to tty1 console. As the > cd hadnt finished booting, it kept displaying information until the > point it stopped. The last two lines of the kernel report read like > this: > > *Starting plymouth console... failed > *Disconected from plymouth. > > Help please... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
