Alistair MAcgregor wrote:
Hi all
I have a problem that has me puzzled.
I recently downloaded the latest version of UBUNTU, I installed said disk and rebooted then nothing. All i got was a small flashing curser in the top left hand corner. After a reboot I got a text only boot select screen. On selecting recovery mode, I got a list of what was happening, at least I think it was. It got as far as finding my CDROM drive and stopped for what seemed like days, then back to the small flashing curser.
The first thing to do is check the md5sum of the ISO you downloaded against the one on the mirror site. There are windows tools to do this (doesn't apply if you got the ISO from a torrent).
Or it could be an issue with your cdreader and/or media, even if these things appear to work normally otherwise. The error recovery and handling during the boot phase is not as tolerant.
This being the case you could download the windows version of unetbootin and build the installer from your existing ISO on a memory stick rather than a CD (assuming your hardware can boot from a usb drive and you have a spare 1gb stick kicking about)