[darkpuppet]

From the Ubuntu CD boot screen, hi-lite "Try Ubuntu without making any changes to your computer". press F4, select "safe graphics mode",

If that doesn't work, select Try Ubunto without making changes, then press F6, delete "quiet splash" and add "vga-791 noreplace-paravirt" and then hit enter to boot.

Then you can install from the CD instance that starts up.

Once installed, to boot into Ubuntu, you'll need to do the following when presented with the boot screen..

1. Press ‘Esc’ to enter the menu.
2. “Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-7-generic” should be highlighted. Press ‘e’.
3. Hightlight “kernel /boot/…”, the press ‘e’.
4. Put “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt” between “xforcevesa” and “quiet”.
5.Press ‘Enter’.
6.Press ‘b’ to boot. The Ubuntu logo should come up soon.

once in Ubuntu, you'll need to go into the system startup settings and add that to the boot command line so you don't have to enter it every time you go into Ubuntu.

and that's it.