How to install Ubuntu Linux on Acer ASPIRE 5736Z
Notebook / Get around the black screen install CD issue
My sister's newly bought laptop is
Acer Aspire 5736Z . By
the default this notebook comes with some kind of Linux
distribution
Linpus .
Even though this
Linpus (crafted Linux especially for Acer
notebooks) looked really nice, it prooved to be a piece of shit
linux distro.
Linplus was unable to even establish a simple Wireless WPA2
protected connection with my wireless router, not to mention that
the physical Linux consoles (CTRL+ALT+F1) were disabled ...
This
LinPlus was so bad that I couldn't even launch any type
of terminal on it (I was stuck!) so I decided to kill it and make a
decent latest
Ubuntu 11.04 Install on it.
I was surprised to find out that trying to boot up the
Ubuntu
11.04 installer led me to a
black screen (black screen of
death).
The
v Aspire's 5736Z monitor kept completely blank, where
the hard drive was continuously reading (indicating that the Ubuntu
installer has properly booted but it couldn't light up the notebook
screen).
A bit of investigation on any issues with this Acer notebook model
has led me to a thread in fedora forums:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263794
On this forum the same kind of Linux install problem was described
to also occur with ASPIREs 5736Z during a Fedora install.
I just tried the suggested fix and it works like a charm.
The fix goes like this:
1. Invoke the Ubuntu settings parameter Install pre install
screen
Just press any button while the Ubuntu installer CD is reading and
after few secs the Install options screen should appear, like you
see it in below's screenshot:
2. Select the nomodetest Boot CD Ubuntu option
You see in the above screenshot the
F6 Other Options . I had
toto press
F6 and choose the
nomodetest boot option
to make the Ubuntu be able to further boot up.
After selecting the
nomodetest option and pressing on the
Install Ubuntu menu option the graphic installer launched
succesfully ;)
Hope this small
tip to be helpful to some Ubuntu or other Linux
user who is trying to install Linux on his Acer Aspire
5736Z
Cheers ;)