Installation problem

[RyanMB]

Hi guys

I've installed Ubuntu on a hard drive however the pc does not go further than the loading screen. Any suggestions on how I can fix this?

 

[Drake2007]

Could be the HD is faulty?
Also when you installed did you customize anything?

 

[RyanMB]

no, i installed the HD in a different machine and it worked fine, however when I put it in another machine, it doesn't boot further, I ran the HD test and it came up with no errors.

 

[Drake2007]

Does the PC let you switch out of the graphic screen? Should be a ubuntu safe mode you can choose to boot. maybe see more info what's going on. i.e. kernel panic or something to that effect.

 

[RyanMB]

i'll try that

 

[Tassidar]

Don't know if its related, but I've known the computer to crash on loading. I got around it by disabling ACPI when booting.

 

[concentricpuddle]

Press Alt+F1 when the loading screen appears [it'll drop you to a console where you can see what's going on] and post any error messages. Then we can probably get an idea of what the problem is.