** Description changed: Booting the knot2 desktop CD failed after the "configuratin X" boot message. The screen went black except for a flashing underscore character in the upper left of the screen and stayed that way for 3 minutes. - Using the Ctl-Backspace key combination allowed the boot to continue and - in fact X came up and I was able to finish the install. + Using the Ctl-Alt-Backspace key combination allowed the boot to continue + and in fact X came up and I was able to finish the install. The laptop I was installing on is a Dell Latitude D800 with an nvidia card that dmidecode describes as a Gforce FX go5200.
-- edgy eft knot2 desktop cd hangs on or around xorg configuration https://launchpad.net/bugs/60316 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
