[mdlug] Can't get graphical boot on an older box

[Tony Bemus]

If you plan on using the standard IPCop  install as the second boot
option I would suggest that you install that first then work on the
Ubuntu.    with all the IPCop installs that I have done, it will wipe
your current drive and use the whole thing.

Just something to look out for.

Tony


On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:20 -0400, Ingles, Raymond wrote:

> I'm working on setting up a firewall box that can also double as a basic Linux
> workstation sometimes. I've got a 20GB drive in there, which is plenty for what
> I want to do. I'll have a dual-boot setup, probably IPCop and Ubuntu. I'm trying
> to get the Ubuntu install done first, though, and I'm running into problems.
> 
>  I've tried disks for Ubuntu 7.06 and 7.10. I've also tried Knoppix CDs with
> versions 3.3, 3.4, 3.8, and 5.10 (I think, a very recent Knoppix, anyway.) In
> all cases, they can boot, but stumble badly on the graphics, it just locks up
> with a blank screen, or a line of blocks at the top, or whatever. I can usually
> Ctl-Alt-F1 to get to a console, but that's it.
> 
>  The machine is a Dell Dimension L700cx; 700MHz Celeron, 256MB RAM, i810 onboard
> graphics, two wired NICs and one PCI 802.11g card, plus an Aureal Vortex sound
> card. Last night I pulled all the cards but got the same behavior. I've run memtest
> and it didn't find any problems with the RAM.
> 
>  What's funny is I *know* I got this thing to work with Ubuntu 6.06 at one point.
> I think it may be that something about the memory map of live CDs doesn't work
> well with the i810 graphics in there. I'm going to try the 'alternate', non-graphical
> Ubuntu install CD and see if that works. I'm pretty sure that, with 6.06, there
> wasn't a live-CD version, or at least I didn't use one.
> 
>  Has anyone run into a problem like this? Any suggestions?
> 
>  Sincerely,
> 
>  Ray Ingles                                                 (313) 227-2317
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