New ubuntu install freezes on boot on IBM T21 laptop

[Kush]

if the t21 has ram below 512mb, ubuntu/kubuntu/edubuntu will definitely 
give problems. From what i have read about the t21 at epinions.com, it 
is a 128mb machine.

Kush

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:31:46PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> Alex Maynard wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi All:
>>>
>>> Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a problem I've been having
>>> with IBM T21 laptop?
>>>
>>> I installed a new kubuntu disk on my laptop. At first it worked well. But
>>> about a day later it started going blank halfway through reboot and kept
>>> doing this.  So essentially I couldn't boot from the hard drive.
>>>
>>> Later I reinstalled ubuntu and the same thing happened.  I used
>>> to have the same laptop working using libranet but they went out of
>>> business and my CDs from them are too far out of date to update without
>>> dependency problems.
>>>
>>> The only thing I can think of to do now is to try a differerent
>>> distribution (any suggestions?), but I thought I would run this by
>>> you to see what other suggestions you might have.
>>>       
>> SUSE has good ThinkPad support.
>>     
>
> It is probably not a distro problem, but that some aspect of hardware is
> misconfigured and balking the boot.  Can you report the place in the
> boot process that the "blanking" happens?  If the screen is going blank
> I would think it'd be a power management setting that's barfing, but it
> could be a range of things.
>
> Debian also has good ThinkPad support, but I don't think that that's the
> actual issue.
>   

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