12.04 usb drive boot graphic problems
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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grub-installer (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am trying to boot from a USB drive containing 12.04. I created the boot disk from 10.04. When I boot from the USB drive instead of seeing the boot screen to select boot options (install, run from disc, etc.) I see a black screen with a grey square in the lower left corner of my screen.
If I cursor down to where install is and select the install screen displays fine.
If instead I wait out the boot screen and the OS continues to load I get a garbled screen filled with neon colored patterns, and nothing else is viewable. If I right click or move the mouse around the screen there are many changes in the patterns, but still nothing viewable except the neon garbled mess. (however I can flip over to terminal and it works fine.)
I also had graphic issues with Natty and Oneiric, so have resorted to reinstalling and staying on Lucid. Would really like to find out why newer versions of Ubuntu (running Unity, though not sure if that is the issue) do not work well on this laptop though, since it is not old and is a pretty powerful laptop.
Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop
GeForce 840M GS graphics card
4GB Ram
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