Thanks again for checking back. That alone impresses me.
I'm afraid that reporting this as a bug was my first mistake. I'm not
technically competent to answer your questions. I never saw a "log file"
during my boot attempts, for example.
I can say this: the third computer I tried did successfully
Thanks for getting back.
The system hangs up while booting from a CD, DVD or from a USB stick. I
never get any kind of splash screen, except for a brief view of a
maroonish background with two icons at the bottom. It isn't there long
enough for me to see what they are. After that, a black screen (
Public bug reported:
I created a DVD for Ubuntu 11.1 using InfraRecorder (twice!) During
reboot, I get a brief flash screen and then the screen goes black and
the system hangs up. No mouse pointer, no image and not even the DVD
will eject.
I then installed 11.1 to run inside Windows from the Wub
