I tried running an Ubuntu Live disk, after a failed attempt to run a Mepis Live disk. Both failed for similiar reasons, the boot went well, but the GUI didn't load. Mepis gave me a CLI and Ubuntu did not give me a CLI, but gave me an idea of what went wrong.

Informing me that it failed to set up my Xdisplay Server or something to the like. I assume this is the same kind of problem that occured with Mepis, I'm wondering what I can do to fix it.

This is the system I'm running. any help would be appreciated, the sooner I break the windows shackles the better...

seems like you need to pass some boot options to the kernel while you boot. Is that monitor an LCD or a CRT?


Hopefully we can get you up 'n' running here shortly

LCD monitor

Try passing the xdriver=vga to see if that helps at all

How can I do that?

at the GRUB screen, hit 'e' to edit the boot parameters. add xdriver=vga to the end of that line to see if you can boot with a generic video driver.

I was able to get it working in PCLINUX OS with the Vesa driver it's not perfect, menus are screwed up, yadda yadda yadda.

It appears to be the same as my bug:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=435671
have you had any luck with Ubuntu distros?

Admittedly, I haven't run any other OS distros... I only have one CD and so far I'm liking PClinuxOS a lot (aside from the minor graphical glitches I'm experiencing as is) I'm considering installing it soon.

but for me running pclinuxos with the line "livecd xdrv=vesa" fixed the problem somewhat... using a generic driver worked.

Exactly what is the GRUB screen =\?

Where you choose what operating system you want to boot (if you only have one operating system, you may not see it long...or at all) is the GRUB screen. Thisis a screen shot of GRUB.

I don't get a grub screen, I'm trying to run it from a LIVE CD.