After a little struggling, I managed to install Ubuntu 12.04. I can hear the computer running while the screen is off, and it turns off directly after the BIOS screen.
Specs:
- Case: Thermaltake V4 Mid Tower Case with 500W PSU – USB 3.0 – Transparent Window – 10x 5.25" & 3.5" Drive Bays – Front Speaker & HD Audio Inputs
- RAM: 4GB Memory, PC3-10600 (1333MHz) DDR3, 240-pin DIMM, Non-ECC, CL 9-9-9-24
- CPU: AMD A6-3500 Triple Core Fusion APU – Socket FM1 – 2.1GHz – 3MB L2 Cache – Integrated Radeon HD6530D Graphics – TDP 65W – Llano – Fan Included
- Mobo: ASRock A75M-HVS – AMD Socket FM1 – AMD A75 FCH Chipset – 2x DDR3-2400 – 1x PCIe x16, 1x PCIe x1 & 1x PCI – 6x SATA3 – 4x USB3.0 – D-Sub & HDMI – 5.1 Channel Audio – Gigabit LAN – Micro ATX
- SSD: Crucial M4 64GB SATA 6GB/s S- 2.5" – 500MB/s Read & 95MB/S Write – NAND Management (details on the partitioning of this drive below.
- HDD: Western Digital WD Caviar Blue 3.5" 1TB SATA 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive
- Monitor: HP LE2001wm 20" Widescreen LCD – 1600 x 900 Resolution – 250 cd/m2 – 1000:1 Contrast Ratio – 5 ms Response Time – DVI-D & VGA – Speakers
When installing Ubuntu I used the 64 GB SSD for the following partitions:
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500MB
/boot
partition which I asked the bootloader to run from -
/
10GB -
swap 2GB
-
/home
partition with the remainder of the space on the disk.
Best Answer
nomodEset:
MavNix, I believe the reason you are still having issues is because you mistyped the necessary parameter 'nomodset'. It should be 'nomodeset', with an e (lower case). Thanks and hope you get it running.