Unable to boot Live CD (8.10 or 9.04beta) - new user

Hi,

Some suggestions:

- Make sure that you have the latest FIRMWARE installed on your CD drive from which you burn these CDs
- Download from a different server and check the integrity of the download.
- Burn at a slower speed.

Some CD burning tips can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

Let me know how it goes.
Kind regards,
Raffaello

Ubuntu 8.10 does not properly handle ATI nor NVIDIA graphic cards out of the box. I have no idea on 9.04.

My suggestions:

1) Install 8.04 LTS, which manages fairly well these cards.

2) Use the alternate live CD of 8.10 or 9.04 to make a text-curses based installation, and then manually install appropriate drivers. I've been checking at ATI website http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx and looks like there exists drivers for your card for both 32 and 64 bit editions. Note that these drivers are delivered in the form of a shell script from which you may generate .deb packages that you may install later with dpkg. You may have a look at the following page to get more instructions on how to do this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

Hope this helps.

Regards,

--Bixejo

this has happened to me b4 when you burn the iso burn it at a slow speed. like 1-5x when you burn at a fast speed the error correction doesn't work too well. once i burned the cd at 5 x instead of max speed it worked. hope that helps. also you could try a diff cd like kubuntu. and just sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop to get the ubuntu version with gnome

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD

and if you want to try it out on the hard drive so you can set-up all the proper drivers and stuff then this is the best way to set-up dual boot to get the best from both OS's
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot

I would definitely try the LiveCd of another couple of distros tho. Wolvix is faster and lighter, it's from the Slackware fork rather than the Ubuntu/Debian fork. Fedora also often works better on machines Ubuntu has trouble with. If neither of these get to a working desktop then it could be tricky but if either does work then we could try using something from the working one to get Ubuntu to work ;)
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=wolvix

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
it's best to try distros from different major families of linux for this, there's only about 8 or perhaps even only 6 main forks. I don't know a small light one from RedHat but fedora, from that fork, should be worth trying.

Please let us know how this goes
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)