Linux Mint 6 start up not responding error -10pts?

Question

Alright, I'm new to Linux (in fact, I've never really used) and I just wanted to test out Linux Mint 6 this morning. I made the live boot CD. I popped it in, and everything seemed to be running fine. I got to the start up screen (where it ask you if you want to start Linux normally, or in safe mode). I told it to start normally, the screen went black, it gave me a bunch of mombo jombo with a lot of dots afterwards(honestly, I wasn't paying much attention), it said ready, and then some error code came up that said not responding. I tried it over several times. I even loaded it on to a partition and tried to boot it off that and it didn't work. i downloaded it again and made another boot CD, and still got the same results.
Any genius out there who has a what's up?
And yes, I am a Noob so treat me like your grandmother.
THX

Answer 1

It sounds like this is not a distribution which runs on your hardware. Happens. I don't know Linux Mint (and I'm sitting at a Linux User Group meeting but all the *buntu people didn't make it this week) but you might try this:



http://www.knoppix.com



That is actually a similar but more advanced Linux distro. Boot that up. It has awesome hardware recognition so it should be able to run. If you run into the same problem, reboot, and this time type "linux text" at the boot prompt. You should boot up to text, actually. If you can't, there are distros like damnsmalllinux and puppy linux -- even Debian which Ubuntu is based on -- which you can use to try out Linux, but only puppy is friendly to n00bies (this place is incredible. I gave one answer where I'd said, "I'd recommend Gentoo but I'm not evil" then I noticed an answer above me which recommended Gentoo. The questioner knows C++ but not Unix. There are some evil people here).



I don't know if linux text is the same as safe mode, but if you can boot up that way it gives you SOME information. Here is a list of Linux User Groups in the US:



http://www.linux.org/groups/usa/



Try to find one near you you can take your problem to. The people are almost all engineers, which takes a little getting used to, but they are as nice as you are going to find.



They can probably recommend live cds, which will allow you to learn about Linux before you try installing it that will run on your hardware. Linux Mint is a live CD, but obviously it doesn't like your hardware.

Answer 2

Could be an ACPI problem. Some computer's BIOS didn't implement ACPI properly, and they'll freeze on bootup sometimes.



You can try to disable ACPI, or any power-related settings in BIOS.



Or you can add ACPI=OFF to the Linux Mint bootup option.

Answer 3

It doesn't sound like the install went properly. Have you read the User Guide? I would suggest you read that.

During the install it will ask you to respond to some choices and for a user name you wish to use and create a password.

Try again