Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1 live CD doesn't boot on MacBook4,1

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

(Sorry if this is the wrong place for this bug report.)

Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1 AMD64+Mac <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/beta-1/ubuntu-11.10-beta1-alternate-amd64+mac.iso>
Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1 i386 <http://releases.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ubuntu-11.10-beta1-desktop-i386.iso>

1. Burn the image to CD.
2. Start the computer from the CD.

What happens: A blinking cursor appears in the top corner of the screen, and nothing else.

What should happen: Ubuntu should start up from the CD.

This has happened with both AMD64+Mac and i386 images, burned on two different CDs, with two different disc burners. So the problem isn't the image validity, the disc, or the burner.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Do you even see the boot screen? If not, this is a syslinux bug. (I expect it will only be fixable if a boot expert sits down with the hardware, unless it's already been fixed upstream ...)

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

No, it doesn't get as far as the boot screen. No "ISOLINUX" or anything, just a blinking cursor.