Help! Dual-Booting Problem (1 Viewer)

[Ciansy]

I've just received the new PC that I was planning to buy over in the What Computer? thread, and I'm currently trying to get it to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu. I partitioned my hard drive, set the machine to boot from CD and put in the Ubuntu CD. It then asked me what I wanted to do and I selected 'run or install ubuntu'.
Instead of going to the bare Ubuntu desktop, as I was informed it should have, I'm now left with a black screen with a | at the top, and

Kernel alive
kernel direct mapping tables up to 100000000 @ 8000 - d000

I'm lost at this point, none of the keys seem to do anything. Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[Space]

I've just received the new PC that I was planning to buy over in the What Computer? thread, and I'm currently trying to get it to dual boot Vista and Ubuntu. I partitioned my hard drive, set the machine to boot from CD and put in the Ubuntu CD. It then asked me what I wanted to do and I selected 'run or install ubuntu'.
Instead of going to the bare Ubuntu desktop, as I was informed it should have, I'm now left with a black screen with a | at the top, and

Kernel alive
kernel direct mapping tables up to 100000000 @ 8000 - d000

I'm lost at this point, none of the keys seem to do anything. Does anyone have any ideas?

Have you tried turning the computer off and on again?

Is the ubuntu cd working on any other computer?

Do you want a copy of XP?

Edit: See this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2964527

 

[Ciansy]

Cian Mór, you are a king among men.

Thanks a million! That was freaking me out, the computer was completely unresponsive. All is fine and dandy now.

 

[Space]

Cian Mór, you are a king among men.

Thanks a million! That was freaking me out, the computer was completely unresponsive. All is fine and dandy now.

Cool don't thank me thank google for that one. Any other wierd messages just type the message into google and there's usually a solution. That goes for everything else in life too.

 

[Ciansy]

Cool don't thank me thank google for that one. Any other wierd messages just type the message into google and there's usually a solution. That goes for everything else in life too.

"I'm leaving you, you prick, you've no respect for anybody but yourself"

Hmm, off to google I go.

 

[Space]

"I'm leaving you, you prick, you've no respect for anybody but yourself"

Hmm, off to google I go.

Your search - "I'm leaving you, you prick, you've no respect for anybody but yourself" - did not match any documents.