i am having the same problem as ryan is describing. by running a regular install the computer hangs after "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
i tried booting with "acpi=ht noapic nolapic". i get to a screen with the ubuntu logo and it says Loading essential drivers .. OK then Mounting file system and nothing follows it. Then a screen shows up with the following. "[17179571] BIOS bug, local APIC #0 not detected!..." one thing i did notice in the boot options was this line. ramdisk_size=1048576 my computer only has 512MB of memory, not 1 GB. further investigating this issue i restarted the computer and choose Memory Test. a screen with a blue background appears but no numbers are changing. two lines that stick out to me are "Pass 0%" and "Test 52%". pressing c for configuration or esc for reboot does nothing so it appears that the computer froze...which it probably did. i am a beginner when it comes to linux but i do know most of the basic shell commands. any help would be appreciated. -- Cannot install, hangs after "Freeing initrd memory: xxxxk freed" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/40093 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
