Public bug reported:
I can't find a boot option that will cause Feisty Fawn beta to boot.
Symptoms (regardless of booting normal, graphical safe mode, video
resolution set to minimum)
As soon as I hit enter, the small window with progress bar comes up.
While initially the progress bar progresses with blue squares, at the
same time there is video corruption (extra pixels changing, immediately
under and around the progress bar)
After the progress bar fills, there is additional delay, with additional
corruption. Note that the initial boot screen / menu is still visible
in the background.
Then the screen clears. There is a short change, and the sound my
monitor makes when it changes video modes. There may be a very brief
flash of text, followed by nothing. After a short pause, the caps lock
and scroll lock lights on the keyboard begin flashing in unison.
This could be a problem in the boot loader (I have no idea what you use
for a boot loader) or _very_ early in the kernel boot process.
Potentially pertinent details:
MB: Asus SK8V
CPU: Opteron 148
Memory: 1GB
Video: ATI x800, 256M video RAM
I have five HD's installed, 3SATA(2 mirrored RAID, 1 standalone), 2PATA
(master/slave), and two optical drives. USB mouse, PS2 keyboard. I
can't think of anything else potentially relevant, so I'll leave it at
that.
Note that this behavior or similar also exists for Ubuntu 6.10 and 6.06.
I have not been able to get Ubuntu on this machine at all. Prior
versions of Ubuntu would get to the second progress bar before failing.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Boot failure with video corruption
https://launchpad.net/bugs/95370
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