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i currently have windows 7 64-bit installed. I'm attempting obtain a dual boot system with Linux.

I initially tried to install Linux mint 12 64-bit. It gets to the grub interface, i select the live boot, and somewhere along the process of checking of what im guessing are the drivers for sata, usb etc. it just freezes. If i unplug and plug in something like a USB, it detects and prints those events, so it's not completely frozen.

I then tried to install ubuntu 12.04 64-bit and the exact same thing happened. I attempted again by removing all USB peripherals, besides the keyboard, but still no avail.

Is it perhaps that linux does not support my motherboard?

My System specs

Motherboard : Intel DX58SO

CPU : Intel Core i7 960

Graphics Card : Gigabyte Geforce GTX560

RAM: Kingston 1300mhz 2Gb x2 (4GB)

HDD: seagate 500GB SATA

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I have managed to install ubuntu by using the alternative text-based installer, but now when i boot linux, everything is squashed and unreadable. This leads me to believe that there is no support for my graphics card or it is flawed. Is there a way around this so that i can get to cmdline and install nvidia's drivers?

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Are you sure your system is 64bit? An Ubuntu 32bit works on both 32 and 64bit but 64bit works only on 64bit architecture.Make sure these things first.What made me doubt that,your system has only 2GB RAM. – beeju May 12 '12 at 16:13
It is strange to have only 2GB of RAM in a i7. Have you tried the alternate install (text based installation): ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads ? – desgua May 12 '12 at 16:28
Sorry I'm, not sure if i made it visible enough but i specified there Kingston 1300mhz x2. Meaning 4Gb of ram. I see it probably looks like x2 HDDs. I had a dual boot system before with Linux Mint before i had my i7 rig, which was an ASUS P5Q mobo with an Intel Q6600 CPU, 4Gb RAM DDR2 and Geforce GTX 260. Everything was fine. Now with this new system. I have encountered this strange problem. I want to post a camera shot of where the point the boot operation fails, but i need 10 rep first :D. – FinalFortune May 12 '12 at 19:35
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! This question should instead be filed as a bug report, and as such is off-topic, thanks! Instructions on filing a bug report are here. – Jorge Castro May 15 '12 at 1:37

closed as off topic by fossfreedom♦ May 15 '12 at 8:20

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