ISO Won't Boot, AMD 754 MOBO

[halw]

Tried booting dvd on ASUS k8n-e deluxe mobo. It has an Athlon 754 64 processor.

Wondering if hardware too old for kernal. Currently have 12.04 running on system and have a spare drive which I was going to load 14.04 on and test.

BTW, same dvd boots up fine on dell e6410 laptop.

[Snowhog]

Describe exactly what happens when booting the dvd. How far does the process go? At what point does it stop/fail?

[halw]

Describe exactly what happens when booting the dvd. How far does the process go? At what point does it stop/fail?

Boots to the point where you select, Run, Test disk or test memory. Enter to run or test disk and screen goes blank. Could it be that a switch for video needs to be set? Have nvidia gt660 gpu in system.

[Snowhog]

Most likely 'yes'.

VGA Boot modes to set screen resolution


A simple way to set your screen resolution and color depth for most Live Linux distro's is via the use of the vga=parameter boot option. For example at boot you might type: Live vga=795. This would set your system to boot using the Live label with a screen resolution to 24bit 1280X1024. Here are some more examples of common vga boot values.

VGA Resolution and Color Depth reference Chart:

Depth	800×600	1024×768	1152×864	1280×1024	1600×1200
8 bit	vga=771	vga=773	vga=353	vga=775	vga=796
16 bit	vga=788	vga=791	vga=355	vga=794	vga=798
24 bit	vga=789	vga=792		vga=795	vga=799

[halw]

Used 'nomodeset' switch and am posting from live 14.04 alpha now.

Thanks Paul.