I have been trying to install from flash drive, and CD with no luck . I am running a IBM ThinkCenter M50 (8189A1EU) PC Desktop with 3GB RAM.
I have gone into BIOS and changed the boot order to be CD, or REMOVABLE DEVICE first, and tried putting both of them sequentially, and then even removing HD from the list completely with no success. The machine just hangs with a black screen and a blinking cursor and allows no input.
I have also pressed F12 during normal startup and attempted to select one of these BOOT options from the menu with the same results. I even updated the BIOS with no success. I have disabled the admin security features for all bootable devices in the BIOS.
I was reading somewhere that maybe the machine is too old to install? I also read it might have something to do with ATI card, so I disabled that in BIOS and used the on-board one. Not much happened there either. That being said i do notice that while the screen hangs while I wait for the CD or USB to boot my monitor changes resolutions from 640 x480 to 720 x 400.
All i see is blinking white underscore on black screen.
ADDENDUM -I successfully booted from the windows XP disk without problems,but no luck with the UBUNTU boot disk. As a test I even tried the UBUNTU disk on my other machine with no success. Something tells me the files extracted from the ISO and put onto the USB will not work on CD?