Comment 2 for bug 114682

Ok.
Progress!
It installed!
Yay! But not clean.
So first things first.
The [F6] command line came up with ":casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz
quiet splash --"
I edited it to include "noapi=off". The final text looked like this: ":casper
initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash -- noapi=off"

So the kernel ran a few lines of text and then the screen went blank.
Actually, to be accurate, it started flashing periodicly.
this went on for about five to seven minutes or more, when suddenly the
last lines of text appeared following a brief cursor.
Then , low and behold, the human background came into view, and it
loaded the 'live run'.
So I ra the install from the icon, which was clean, except an odd lack of
color in the "progress bar" during the install.
The 'progress loading' was the same color as the background, so as to
make it almost invisible. you could actually see it after it started
overlaping/eraseing the "%" numbers.
You could still read it actually at a certain angle, but just barely.
So that finished up and it ejected the CD and tried to restart. It
couldn't however, I cought a "flag" message during the inital kernal
load saying the "reboot disabled by hardware".
So I figured that was fine and manually 'off/on' restarted.
SAME seven minute boot, except this time no text beyond the first.
Finally I "heard" the drum beat of the login window, to know it had
indeed booted. But no monitor/screen. Just black.
SO, I took a hint from my previous attempts to install and when I
rebooted, Pressed 'Esc' to go into the grub menu.
OK the kernel line looked like this "an inital long string of letter
numbers followed by ro quiet splash acpi=off"

Now here's the funny part. I tried adding some of the commands to the
kernel line in order to get it to boot.
But it didn't matter: Here's the punchline: if I used the 'shutdown' or
'restart' commands, to try to shut it down, about every other time or so
it would not power the screen(leaving it black).
If I just pull the plug out, it seems to be a workaround.
So.
Shutdown doesnt work and causes problems.
Restart doesn''t work and causes problems.
And the initial "splash loading screen" doesn't show up at all.
AND it takes about four minutes (I timed it) to boot up.
So this is the status now.
I'm glad it installed though, and discovering the workarround was great!
So its useable now.
If you know the tricks and are patient.

By the way friend, you're also family.
I'm Stu Murray.
I have some family in Texas and Colorado.
I don't know how far back we are related, but I guess we are.
An interesting side note.
See what you can do with this.
I'm interested to hear what you make of it.
-Stu