Well, blacklisting Bluetooth didn’t work. Bootup still falls down at *Starting Bluetooth services. Aldeby (see comments in previous post) doubted that Bluetooth was the culprit, and it appears that he’s right. The good news is that wireless worked out of the box, again as Aldeby predicted, so I’m inclined to listen to him! The bad [...]

update on the previous post: The question that arises from this is, once I get to philip@philip-laptop:~$ where do I go from there? I haven’t a clue. All of the above is in a black screen. I’m not sure if this is the correct way to do it but I got to the desktop by [...]

Having tried all the codes I could find by putting them into the boot menu, I now hope to systematically follow the advice of Aldeby given in the comments to the last post. First of all his advice to go through the Function keys: alt+F1 starting up…. Loading, please wait… usplash: setting mode 1280×1280 failed [...]

Having managed to install Gutsy (fb=false in the boot menu) I have now failed 31 times to boot. I know this because there was a forced system check, which happens in Ubuntu when you’ve booted 31 times. I’ve tried everything I know, but it still goes to a black screen ending in *Starting Bluetooth services. [...]