Chris Mason wrote: >Kirk, > >I now have a cd that works. It boots on one pc but not the one I want to use >it on. The problematic pc just goes to a blank screen as soon as the boot >sequence starts. I have formatted the hard drive on this pc and it was >having registry problems before...windows xp. So my problem is specific to >this pc. Any suggestions? > > There are a couple of options: 1) I think F4 is "Select Video Mode" or similar. Hit that, choose 640x480 or 800x600, and boot. If that doesn't work, try: 2) Hit F3 or F6 for "advanced options" (or similar), which will let you edit the kernel boot parameters. On this line will be an option called "splash" - change this to "nosplash", or add "nosplash" if "splash" isn't there (don't use quotes anywhere, of course). This is also where you would add the options Kirk was talking about - noacpi, noapic, nolaipc, ...
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