[SOLVED] Problems installing 8.10

Hi all, Today i'm trying to install ubuntu 8.10 server on an imac... (aluminium ) i've done the procedure several times with 8.04 and everything went smooth. Today.. i've started the installation on a brand new machine and i cannot get ubuntu installation start. this is what i've done: resize the osx parition using command line ,installed refit and rebooted the pc, synced partitions rebooted pc, then choosed linux cd to boot.. but all i get is.... a black screen with a blinking cursor on left top corner... Anyone has any suggestions ?

Thanks all Tiziano

e-tip said: Hi all,

Today i'm trying to install ubuntu 8.10 server on an imac... (aluminium ) i've done the procedure several times with 8.04 and everything went smooth. Today.. i've started the installation on a brand new machine and i cannot get ubuntu installation start. this is what i've done: resize the osx parition using command line ,installed refit and rebooted the pc, synced partitions rebooted pc, then choosed linux cd to boot.. but all i get is.... a black screen with a blinking cursor on left top corner... Anyone has any suggestions ?

Thanks all Tiziano

Do you ever get the CD boot menu where you select your language, etc?

Do you ever get the CD boot menu where you select your language, etc?

Nope :( that's the strange thing

I didn't manage to solve the problem, to solve i've simply cloned a working hard drive with dd into the iMac hard drive

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e-tip said: Nope :( that's the strange thing

Can you file a bug on this. You are not the first person that has said this (on the 24" iMac)