New ubuntu install freezes on boot on IBM T21 laptop

[E K]

I had similar problems with the Ubuntu GUI installer. Try to use the alternate cd for text mode installation. Usually, that works fine. Besides, it will alow you to choose among diffrent installation options.

EK

Kush <be_a_sport-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote: 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 business and my CDs from them are too far out of date to update without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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