Ubuntu live cd : black screen and blinking cursor
- by IFasel
I try to install ubuntu 12.04 on my computer. I can get to the purple screen on the live cd but then, if I choose "Installing Ubuntu", I have a black screen with a cursor blinking (and nothing else happens).
My PC : acer aspire M3920, CPU i5-2300, 8 Gb RAM, NVIDIA gt 405.
What I already tried :
I tried with 12.04 and 13.04 daily build
I tried with a live usb and with a live dvd
I tried the following boot options : nomodset, acpi=off
I googled a lot and it seems that it could be a graphic card problem. Do you know any other boot options that I could try ?
UPDATE
This is not a duplicate : I've tried all the common boot options (nomodeset, noacpi...) and it doesn't change anything.
With the option "no splash" (instead of "quiet splash"), I can see what happens before the forever-blinking cursor :
[sdg] no caching mode present
[sdg] assuming drive cache : write trough
ata8.00: excetion Emask 0x52 ... frozen
ata8 : SError : { RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData...}
ata8.00 : failed command : IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE
...
ata8.00 : status : { DRDY }
ata8 : hard resetting link
Does somebody know what it means ?
N.B. astonishingly, Puppy Linux boots fine (but Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu do not)
Solution
In fact, it was not a graphic card problem. I had to disconnect the dvd drive and connect it to another free sata connector (I don't really understand why Ubuntu had trouble with this connector and Windows 7 not). After that, everything worked fine.
