[Discuss] Ubuntu on my old laptop :-((

[Jerry Feldman]

On 06/05/2012 02:32 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> At the installfest, I decided to upgrade my Hp/Compag 64-bit nx6125
> laptop with Ubuntu 12.04. However, when I boot from either USB media or
> CD media (32-bit or 64-bit) all I get it the Ubuntu logo. The cycling
> dots all stop. The laptop currently runs Kubuntu 11.04 (or 11.10). After
> failing Ubuntu on several tries with media that I built and with
> official Ubuntu media. Just to see if the if the laptop could run a
> recent kernel, I booted Fedora 17 Live USB successfully, so it looks
> like there is an issue with Ubuntu 12.04. The laptop is about 7 years
> old with an AMD 64-bit CPU. I've got plenty of memory on the laptop.
>
This morning I was able to successfully install Ubuntu 12.04.1 on my old
laptop. All is well now. I don't know why the 12.04 media failed to
boot, but 12.04.1` worked fine.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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