I tried the image of 03.02.2010 last night (local time). I saw the blue and white band across the bottom of the screen, which I hadn't seen before, but nothing else. There was a brief flash of an error message before total lockup.
I then tried again, removing "quiet splash" from the kernel line to see if there were any interesting error messages. I noticed that this time it was able to mount the swap partition, which is the furtherest it has ever got on this machine. But it then locked up and I had to use the reset button.
I also noticed, for the first time with the live CD, that it had upset my ethernet MAC address and that I'd been assigned a different IP address by my router. I had to power the computer off completely and leave it off for a few minutes for the MAC address to go back to the original one.
So, there is progress. I'm looking forward to the day when I can install and do some real testing.
I tried the image of 03.02.2010 last night (local time). I saw the blue and white band across the bottom of the screen, which I hadn't seen before, but nothing else. There was a brief flash of an error message before total lockup.
I then tried again, removing "quiet splash" from the kernel line to see if there were any interesting error messages. I noticed that this time it was able to mount the swap partition, which is the furtherest it has ever got on this machine. But it then locked up and I had to use the reset button.
I also noticed, for the first time with the live CD, that it had upset my ethernet MAC address and that I'd been assigned a different IP address by my router. I had to power the computer off completely and leave it off for a few minutes for the MAC address to go back to the original one.
So, there is progress. I'm looking forward to the day when I can install and do some real testing.