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After a little struggling, I managed to install Ubuntu 12.04. I can hear the computer running while the screen is off, and it turns off directly after the BIOS screen.

Specs:

  • Case: Thermaltake V4 Mid Tower Case with 500W PSU - USB 3.0 - Transparent Window - 10x 5.25" & 3.5" Drive Bays - Front Speaker & HD Audio Inputs
  • RAM: 4GB Memory, PC3-10600 (1333MHz) DDR3, 240-pin DIMM, Non-ECC, CL 9-9-9-24
  • CPU: AMD A6-3500 Triple Core Fusion APU - Socket FM1 - 2.1GHz - 3MB L2 Cache - Integrated Radeon HD6530D Graphics - TDP 65W - Llano - Fan Included
  • Mobo: ASRock A75M-HVS - AMD Socket FM1 - AMD A75 FCH Chipset - 2x DDR3-2400 - 1x PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1 & 1x PCI - 6x SATA3 - 4x USB3.0 - D-Sub & HDMI - 5.1 Channel Audio - Gigabit LAN - Micro ATX
  • SSD: Crucial M4 64GB SATA 6GB/s S- 2.5" - 500MB/s Read & 95MB/S Write - NAND Management (details on the partitioning of this drive below.
  • HDD: Western Digital WD Caviar Blue 3.5" 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive
  • Monitor: HP LE2001wm 20" Widescreen LCD - 1600 x 900 Resolution - 250 cd/m2 - 1000:1 Contrast Ratio - 5 ms Response Time - DVI-D & VGA - Speakers

When installing Ubuntu I used the 64 GB SSD for the following partitions:

  • 500MB /boot partition which I asked the bootloader to run from

  • / 10GB

  • swap 2GB

  • /home partition with the remainder of the space on the disk.

karel
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MavNix
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nomodEset:

MavNix, I believe the reason you are still having issues is because you mistyped the necessary parameter 'nomodset'. It should be 'nomodeset', with an e (lower case). Thanks and hope you get it running.

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Mick
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That may be a problem with your RADEON graphics card:

AMD A6-3500 Triple Core Fusion APU - Socket FM1 - 2.1GHz - 3MB L2 Cache - Integrated Radeon HD6530D Graphics - TDP 65W - Llano - Fan Included

When you boot the computer,hold Shift which will get you to the GRUB menu.Then E to edit the command line,use the keys to move to the line where is says quiet splash and add nomodeset . Then press F10 to boot.

dlin
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  • I don't want to get this wrong, so add nomodset directly after quiet splash? – MavNix Jun 07 '12 at 13:50
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    yes.it should be like quiet splash nomodeset – dlin Jun 07 '12 at 13:52
  • after doing that and hitting f10 it just powers down the monitor again.

    I'll list the full screen in case you/anyone can spot a problem

    setprams 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae'

    recordfail gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid -set=root d942fp0f-8b86-44fb-be42-41be51cfda2c linux /vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-generic-pae root=UUID=6babe0f1-81c0-445e-92f8-8ad0bb977525 ro quiet splash nomodset $vt_handoff initrd /initrd.img-3.2.0-24-generic-pae

     – MavNix Jun 07 '12 at 14:02
  • Sorry about the huge chunk of info, I can't figure out how to put the writing into new lines. – MavNix Jun 07 '12 at 14:57
  • Check you system RAM. – Mitch Jun 07 '12 at 15:36
  • How would I go about doing that? – MavNix Jun 07 '12 at 23:02
  • Once I add in nomodset as you mentioned, how do I make it a permanent change? When I have managed to add in nomodset before or after quiet splash, it hasn't been there after I rebooted. – MavNix Jun 08 '12 at 11:41
  • Still at a total loss as to how I can edit the grub etc. – MavNix Jun 08 '12 at 13:35