Hey guys, idiot here. I am very much a novice user, and have used windows
most of my life and have just recently been reading up on free software and
liked the philosophy and wanted to try to make the big switch to this one. I
understand windows is looked down upon but I'm dual booting right now to have
something I'm familiar with around while I learn.
Anyway, I have version 5.0 installed right now, and about 50% of the time it
won't boot, either just hangs at the loading screen or if it hung last time
it may go blank before giving an error about improper shutdown or something.
Because it takes about ten seconds to go from reboot to the loading screen,
it's not a huge nuisance at all, but I'd like to ask about a fix.
The reason I don't have 5.5 installed is that when I tried it it would hang
at a blank screen after boot every time, but after reading this page:
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/installation-troubleshooting
I'm pretty sure that's because I needed the "acpi=off" option to load the
installer.
So my main question is, could someone explain to a computer-illiterate person
the significance of "acpi=off", and also elaborate on the instructions:
"If the boot parameter options worked for you, you will need to make changes
to a text file /boot/grub/menu.lst after the installation has completed."
That file is not in 5.0, so if I want to install 5.5, will it be there or
will I have to create it, and how do I go about editing it properly?
Thanks to everyone in advance for reading, I admit probably won't be able to
contribute much other than questions to this board.
