The Milk Box

I decided seeing as I have 500GB worth of hard drive space doing nothing that I would use some of it for an Ubuntu installation as I haven’t yet gtotr round to install Ubuntu after getting my new computer. I thought that I’d run the Live CD just to make sure that it was in full working order. I tell you, I’m pleased I did now seeing as I wasn’t getting the GUI (graphical user interface) that I should have been getting. It’s safe to say that I was slightly perturbed!

Initially I thought there was an issue with the disc, even though the MD5SUM was correct, but after burning a second I realised that it wasn’t the disc. It appears as though this isn’t an uncommon problem. Lots of people seem to have this issue.

I scoured the internet looking for fixes etc, however, I couldn’t really find any that worked, although I eventually came across one. When you enter the Live CD menu screen hit F6 and you’ll notice that writing appears near the bottom of the screen in white and that’s where you need to type. At the end of the writing you’ll notice two dashes like so; –. It is after these dashes that you type the following:

all_generic_ide floppy=off irqpoll pci=nomsi

I found that Live CD booted up, not massively smoothly but it still booted up and seemed to work. The only issue I had was my wireless PCI card. Anyway I hope this is helpful to some people. If it has worked for you let me know via a comment!

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