Comment 11 for bug 197057

I tried Alpha 6 and the 64-bit live CD boots, well, not quite.

If I accept the default options the screen goes blank and the booting process stops (I waited just to be sure, and it really has stopped, no activity, no progress).

If I modify the boot options to remove the "splash" and "quiet" options the live CD boots into Gnome without a problem.

I should note that if I boot with the Splash screen with the Mepis kernel it boots correctly, but the X display has a few odd artefacts -- which I suspect is either a bug in the radeon driver, or in the card itself (simply switching to a console and switching back fixes it). I mention this since perhaps it is related to the splash crashing the boot process in this new Ubuntu CD.