You might try having a monitor plugged into the external monitor port. Also, if it appears to boot from cd (cdrom drive whirrs, etc) you might try just hitting enter to see if it will make it past the splash even though it doesn't display. <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Frank Dolinar <<a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net">frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi, folks, Nothing seems to be working with this. I did verify, as Karl suggested, that the CD boots to the splash screen on one of my other machines. It does, as expected. The boot sequence for the laptop was reset to make sure that the CD is the first option -- I did that before I started trying to install. So the problem seems to be that the laptop refuses to allow the splash screen to be displayed. Does anyone know why? I certainly don't. If I bring this puppy to the meeting tomorrow can we work on it there? (Please, no baseball bats.) Thanks, Frank <pre cols="70">-- *----------------------------------------------------------------* * Frank Dolinar <a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net" target="_blank">frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a> * * nanoSteps, LLC <a href="http://www.nanosteps.net" target="_blank">www.nanosteps.net</a> * * PO Box 886 517.351.1899 * * East Lansing, MI 48826-0886 * *----------------------------------------------------------------* * Toward the future, one small step at a time. * *----------------------------------------------------------------* </pre> </div> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>