On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 12:24:02 PM Tim James did opine: > I have downloaded and burnt the Live CD 10.04. > > It has worked on one desktop I tried but not on another or my laptop. > > I only have the laptop with me at the moment so I would like to install > Ubuntu and EMC to find out more in conjunction with reading all the EMC > manuals I have printed out. > > The laptop is a Panansonic Toughbook CF29,Windows XP,Pentium 4,756Mb > ram. No knowledge of that one.
> From the users emails over the last few days I tried the ctrl/alt/f1and > have experimented with the f6 boot options. > > The laptop appears to boot to a certain point and then the screen goes > blank and then 'hangs' with the power off button being the only option. > > If I delete splash-- and replace it with vga=771 then the display > remains on and the laptop 'hangs' on pulseaudio configured for > per-user sessions line. Someone needs to tell you how to skip pulse, I believe it can be done but I've never had to get out that big a hammer. > I have tried some of the other f6 suggestions but not all as yet (I will > wear the power button out soon). :) There are pretty durable, my old hp dv-5120-us has a lot of use, still fine. > I don't know if I can add the options sequentially to the boot line or > only use one at a time. Generally you can use a whole bunch of the options, that buffer is at least a full kilobyte. > Does anybody have any suggestions rather than me working through all the > f6 options without really knowing which maybe causing the boot problem > ? > > Tim > > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a > complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure > access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily > deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on > VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> To say you got a vote of confidence would be to say you needed a vote of confidence. -- Andrew Young ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
