When things hang on boot, this computer has a reset button which I use when I'm sure everything that's going to happen has. My IBM computers don't have a reset, so I just have to hold the power off button for maybe 30 seconds. When I do gparted, delete a partition, and make a new one I thought it gave me the option of which format to use; I don't have gparted up at the moment.
If you "search" thru the forums (I like to select New Posts which catches about 10 pages of recent stuff) you may find other people with blank screens. Sometimes Ctrl-Alt-F1 will get a command line so you can try things like: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserv-xorg Other times, when you boot CD Live you can get choice of boot options with F6. A couple to try are noapic acpi=off like so: ......quiet splash noapic acpi=off Now on an installed system you don't get a chance to do F6 but you can boot CD Live and do a Appkications, Accessories, Terminal sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst (where l is lower case L) and add the options there to the kernel line. You sometimes can get a useful message by not doing quiet. Perhaps this discussion should be continued on forums instead of launchpad. Jerry -- Xubuntu partitioning can fail because ubiquity does not prevent thunar from automounting new partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
