ed: soz misread your post...ok, seems as though gnome hasn't loaded and the startup is hanging...can you move your cursor? is your cursor a traditional arrow or an X?
is the live cd good? If you got a menu (offering to install linux, try it out, test cd, boot from first hdd), you can try testing the cd, if you don't know.
otherwise, it's looking like a hardware/driver problem and tahkcalb probably knows far more than i do.
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Sat 9 May 2009, 2:59,
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is the live cd good? If you got a menu (offering to install linux, try it out, test cd, boot from first hdd), you can try testing the cd, if you don't know.
otherwise, it's looking like a hardware/driver problem and tahkcalb probably knows far more than i do.
No, I mean it doesn't bring up a run application box.alt+ctrl+f2 launches another session like all the rest.
I did actually run the test CD option earlier, and it came out OK, but that was on the previous drive I was trying, which in fact ironically appeared to be no good ("I/O error on device hdb, SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block..." etc) and wouldn't get as far as a desktop.
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I did actually run the test CD option earlier, and it came out OK, but that was on the previous drive I was trying, which in fact ironically appeared to be no good ("I/O error on device hdb, SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block..." etc) and wouldn't get as far as a desktop.