Are you saying that Grub itself freezes or that loading of the kernel by grub freezes ? Can you enter the grub menu, by pressing Esc key, when you first get the Grub line ? By default I think grub timeout is 3 secs, so you'll have to press the Esc before that timeout.
On Oct 23, 6:58 am, Tom Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have already installed 8.04 on two home machines and I am a big fan. > I tried installing 8.04 on an older machine last night (Athlon 1700 > with IDE drives). The live CD worked fine. The installation process > had no problem. After rebooting the machine, the BIOS checks pass, and > then it freezes with only the word > GRUB > > I'm not sure why it is stopping there. I reinstalled 5 times last > tried varying things slightly, and having different hard disks as my > install disk. Every time it booted it stopped with > GRUB > > Also, if I boot from the live CD and then ask it to boot from the hard > disk, it freezes in the same way. > > Some of my crazy guesses: > I noticed that during the install it recognized my IDE drives as SCSI > drives instead. I read something about 40 and 80 pin cables causing > problems. > > Do I need some option like acpi=off? I seem to recall having to do > something similar years ago when I installed Fedora Core on the box. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
