Live CD troubles

Hi! So I spent a few hours today reading up on how to dual boot linux/windows, and I decided on Kubuntu - so I d/led Kubuntu, plopped it on a CD and was gonna run it from the CD to see if things worked, booted from the CD, and I saw "DHCP . . . -" for a while, and then it says "no boot file found" - or something to that extent. I probably did something extremely simple wrong, but I'd like to get this working. Any ideas? I'm on my Sager 2090.

 

k, got it to work.. I selected "Start or install kubuntu" and after a bit of running I got "/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
(initramfs)

I haven't googled that yet, but if anyone cares to suggest something

 

It sounds like you are having the same problem that we are having with the new dell inspiron 1520. You appear to have the same graphics card/screen as we do.

You might be able to follow the instructions compiled for the 1520. Check out this thread. You'll have to download and burn the "alternate CD" and install in text mode. Follow the instructions to use the vesa driver until you can run Envy, then you should be OK.

 

You should be able to get it to run by typing "modprobe piix" (without the quotes) when you get that prompt and pressing Enter, then typing "exit" and pressing enter.

Give it a shot.

- Trip

 

Yeah, I found that earlier, thank you. I installed in safe graphics mode - though it's a bit annoying now, because the only way I can it to boot now is modprobe piix. I had found somewhere else that the nvidia beta drivers worked, and that you just had to remove the previous nvidia package. Soo I did that and kubuntu still boots... however kde (or whatever sets up the desktop) doesn't really seem to be working. The command line works fine (ctrl alt f1).. but when I try to get back to the desktop (ctrl alt f7), I just get a black screen with a blinking underscore. ::sighs:: I want to get this to work, I think it would be very cool.

 

I was in the same boat you are. At work, we had some new systems and I tried to load Linux on one of them, with 8600 cards in them.

Every time I turned the computer on, I'd have to reinstall the NVIDIA driver. I never managed to figure out why before I left for college.

Best of luck. If you manage to find a solution, let me know so I can e-mail it to some of my co-workers who are still tinkering with it.

- Trip

 

Haha, thanks. I'm gonna go to my CS TA and see what he can do about it. I've tried a lot of things, but none of them have worked for me. I'll bump this if I find anything, because I know I'm not the only one having this problem.

 

I figured out! I did this entirely from the terminal (alt ctrl F1) since I broke my GUI. You use an amazing little program called "envy". It does everything you need, and amazingly enough leaves you with working drivers. I did as follows:

wget http://albertomilone.com/ubuntu/nvidia/scripts/envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu8-all.deb

sudo dpkg -i envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu8-all.deb

envy -t

EDIT: If my instructions don't work, because I'm not sure they will here's what the site says to do:
http://albertomilone.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Envy-InstructionsForUbuntu

(I used the text based interface because the previous drivers I installed to linux wouldn't let me do anything aside from use the terminal). Then let envy do its work. I think I used envy_0.9.7-0ubuntu6-all.deb, but I just saw he released a newer version, so that should work too. I just agreed to everything and let it do everything for me, and now I'm up and running in dual monitor mode! (to configure things I think you type nvidia-settings). Good luck!

 

this didn't work for me, but you could also try here: A lot of good solutions

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=460765&highlight=8600