For some reason, when I went to a dual boot system, my laptop's wireless stopped working, and booting from a CD stopped as well. All I get is the GRUB screen to choose between Ubuntu and Vista. With OSs on the system, I do not have more than 15 gig for Ubuntu 10.xx and 30 gig for Vista.
My bios is set for CD/DVD before hard drive booting.Now all I need to do is find out how to make sure Ubuntu/Kubuntu would boot to my monitors resolution [1368x768] instead of the maximum that the on board nVidia graphics can do [1920x1080]. I may just wait till I get my new monitor, in a few months.
Before I had to make the Vista laptop dual boot, I had no problems with seeing the "live" CD/DVDs. That is how I first chose Ubuntu out of the pack. It was the only one that worked in "live mode" with the old HP laptop's sound card. That was version 9.xx. Hopefully I will get that one back from a loan out soon. Then I can just dump the dual booting on the Vista machine. It is due for a wipe and re-install. Now that I do not use it to store my data on, I can do that with ease.
As for Unity 3D, I think my on board video can handle it, but I will not want to use Unity. After the monitor purchase, I will be buying a GPU video card, ATI 4850 or better. It will be about the same cost as the monitor, but give me GPU computing for my BOINC number crunching and do about 100 times the amount of crunching as my Phenom 9650 quad CPU gives me.
On 10/19/2011 12:52 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :) This guide might help https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD Even though it is written for Ubuntu it is almost identical for other distros as usual ;) When you try to boot an Ubuntu Cd it gives you a pop=-up screen with a language selector and 2 buttons 1. Try Ubuntu (this often doesn't work and just hangs the system) 2. Install Ubuntu (has lots of "Back" buttons) Soi click on the "Install" and then at click on the "Back" buttons until i get back to that screen with the language selector and the 2 options. Now the "Try Ubuntu" button works! I keep forgetting to post a bug-report about it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 19/10/11, Don Myers<donmyers@myersfarm.com> wrote:From: Don Myers<donmyers@myersfarm.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice 3.4.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity 3D) To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 19 October, 2011, 2:33 In your BIOS, make sure when you are booting that it is checking you CD/DVD drives before your hard drive. I needed to do this and change the boot order so I could preview and also install 11.10. Don On 10/18/2011 08:18 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:I cannot get a 11.10 CD/DVD to do a "live demo" on aUbuntu system. My only Windows machine I have workingis dual boot and I cannot get it to boot from the CD. It keeps going to GRUB. When I choose Win Vista, itdoes not boot from the CD then. So I cannot see what 11.10 looks like. Since it wants to boot at 1920 by 1080 [nVidia MoB graphics] and my monitor max out at 1368 by 768, it causes problems.I still will use GNOME/KDE combo for my desktop andpackages.
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