Early I wrote Ubuntu Success!, however now whenever I try to start Ubuntu it won’t start. Either I get a black screen with “Starting…” over if try to do recovery/rescue it does a bunch of stuff then stops after “Enabling IO-APIC IRQs”. I am posting over the Ubuntu Forums and see if they can give me some direction with this issue and why I couldn’t get my “data” drive to work (my Windows XP drive was okay). MagniolaSouth asked in the prior post about screenshots, once I can get it working and find a good screenshot program (FastStone is only…

Before I went to bed last night I started downloading the alternate desktop CD for Ubuntu. Checked this morning and it has successfully downloaded and as able to burn it onto a CD. Even better I was able to boot from the CD and get Ubuntu installed and working. So as the saying goes, “The third time is the charm!” So far so good. Only minor problem I have had so far is I can’t set my resolution to 1440×900 so I am using 1280×960. Also for whatever reason I can not get Ubuntu to read my data drive. It…