On Tuesday December 11 2007 12:11:54 Andrew Zbikowski wrote: > For older hardware you might have better luck with the alternative CD, > depending on how old it is. > > You could also try turning of acpi. When the installer menu comes up, > press Esc. You will get a message about leaving the graphical menu. > Click OK. You'll get a boot: prompt. > Enter live acpi=off so your boot prompt looks like > boot: live acpi=off > > > > The Ubuntu installer help also has some other suggestions (Press F1 > when the installer boot menu appears): > - If you experience lockups or other hardware failures, disable buggy > APIC interrupt routing: noapic nolapic > boot: live noapic nolapic > > - Disable ACPI for PCI maps (handy for some HP servers and Via-based > machines): pci-noacpi > boot: live pci-noacpi Turning off acpi did it, thanks Andrew! -p.