problems booting into ubuntu with laptop samsung r40

j-ray · 03-22-2009, 03:52 PM

Hi, first of all I already found a workaround for the mentioned problem. Unfortunately I still don't know what was the cause of it and I would definetely appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.

The laptop has a duo 2 core and a dual boot with windows xp(32bit). Windows booted without problems. Ubuntu 8.04-64bit version sometimes boots sometimes hangs completely and sometimes some hardware elements are not available, i. e. network card. Simply not there...

The workaround now is that I boot in "recovery mode" and then switch to sth like "proceed normal boot"... Then no problems. It doesn't take much longer than usual.

If I choose the usual button to start it may take 1 - 5 attempts to get started. I tried to install a 32bit version but that installation failed. Do you have an explanation for this? Would be interesting.

Cheers, J

ronlau9 · 03-23-2009, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by j-ray

Hi, first of all I already found a workaround for the mentioned problem. Unfortunately I still don't know what was the cause of it and I would definetely appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.

The laptop has a duo 2 core and a dual boot with windows xp(32bit). Windows booted without problems. Ubuntu 8.04-64bit version sometimes boots sometimes hangs completely and sometimes some hardware elements are not available, i. e. network card. Simply not there...

The workaround now is that I boot in "recovery mode" and then switch to sth like "proceed normal boot"... Then no problems. It doesn't take much longer than usual.

If I choose the usual button to start it may take 1 - 5 attempts to get started. I tried to install a 32bit version but that installation failed. Do you have an explanation for this? Would be interesting.

Cheers, J

As soon as you have make you're choice for the normal boot and Ubuntu start booting press the ESC button hopefully it boots in text mode and come with use full error messages