On 16.08.11 13:03, James Morrissey wrote: > Hi all, > > I have just received my new laptop. Its a Thinkpad x121e, with Intel (Core > i3). > > I am trying to put ubuntu on it, but i am having some problems with > the 64 bit live USB. > > When i run the USB i get i get a GRUB-looking screen, with options to: > 1. Try Ubuntu without installing > 2. Install Ubuntu > 3. Check the disk
That means it's booted OK as far as GRUB. > Wanting to repartition my HDD (using GParted) so that i can dual boot, > i 'Try Ubuntu without Installing', at which point the screen goes > blank and nothing happens. I am then forced into a hard reboot. I get > the exact same result when i 'Check the disk'. That sounds like a video driver issue. I think when the menu is displayed it mentions pressing different F-keys across the bottom of the screen. IIRC, one offers a failsafe video option. Use that and see if you get further. The other thing to try is to edit the boot entry and remove the 'quiet' option at the end - this will hopefully display a more-helpful error message than a blank screen! Let us know if you need help with how to do that... > To check the USB, i tried it on my old laptop (32bit, Celeron M). When > i did so i got a purple screen with an image of what looks like a > keyboard and a man, and then a message telling me to try a kernel > which matches with my machined architecture. That's expected behaviour when booting a 64-bit live 'disk' on 32-bit hardware. The purple screen probably briefly appears for the 64-bit laptop too. > I then tried a live USB with 32 bit ubuntu and the live USB works fine > - i am sending this email from this live instance. The same can be > said for a 32 bit Mint live usb. On your new hardware? If you don't have more than 4Gb of RAM on the new laptop, you won't get much (any?) benefit running the 64-bit version. Even if you have more than 4Gb of RAM, the installer will install a special "PAE" kernel that will use the extra RAM - each process will be limited however. Other than that, the 32-bit version will do what most people need, even on 64-bit hardware. > So i am not sure what is going on. If anyone could tell me why the > 64bit install is not working, it would be great as i'd like to get it > up and running. The only thing i could think of was that i have > downloaded the amd64.iso, and this is an intel machine, but all the > sites on the web suggest that this shouldn't make a difference (if it > does, where might i get an 64 bit version for intel). In addition i am > not sure why, if this was the problem, my old celeron laptop brings up > the error message while the new machine just hangs. amd64 is the correct image. The reason for the name is that there was an earlier, non-compatible, Intel 64-bit architecture, codenamed Itanium. This is only used for servers. amd64 will work on 64-bit AMD, Intel and other desktop processors. > One more question i have is about dual booting and maintaining my > recovery partition (something i have not had to do before). From > GParted i see that the recovery partition is located at the end of the > hard drive. I am wondering two things: > 1. If i resize the windows partition will the recovery partition move > next to it? Not by default, no. > 2. If not would i do well to install ubuntu between the windows and > recovery partition, and how do i do this since the 'install into > largest continuous space' option seems to have been replaced by the > 'install alongside windows' option in the installer. Will the > alongside option put the install in the right place? I don't know. However, if you select the Advanced or Manual partitioning option, you can make the changes you want and then select the partition into which Ubuntu will be installed. > As always, any and all help is very much appreciated. > > Thanks, > > James. > Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
