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I need to run Ubuntu 11.10 for my diploma thesis, but all i have is a MacBook Air (bought last year). I want to boot Ubuntu from a Live USB in order to install it, but all i get is a black screen. Here is what i did:

I tried creating the Live USB using these instructions: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/create-a-usb-stick-on-mac-osx But OS X Lion couldn't load the USB drive afterwards.

I then used http://penguintosh.com/ to create the Live USB, which seemed to work fine.

I held the alt / option key while booting, then selected the Live USB. I got some white letters on black background telling me "Fasten your seatbelts, loading kernel, this may take a while". Then the screen became black and nothing ever happened.

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In my case, I just got linuxliveusb.com and latest stable long term release of ubuntu studio and it worked just fine. Do you need 11.10? Can't it be 12.04? Maybe that's the issue... – Cawas Oct 15 '12 at 22:34

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