New Install Hangs on Mint splash screen

[snakeysnape]

I am setting this exact laptop model right now....

What I did to install mint was..

1. boot the live cd in safe graphix mode then install
2. after install it will not boot but hung up on the grub
to resolve, when the display of kernels to boot is displayed press e to edit then add

Code: Select all

all_generic_ide

to the end of the line that has "splash" on it
3. this will boot the computer but you will still have problematic video only vesa (i'm still trying to correct that)
4. when you are successful in booting up edit your grub menu.lst in /boot/grub directory and add the above perimeter
opne a terminal then

Code: Select all

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

i am still working on the other problems wifi, sound, video
this is a very unfriendly laptop towards linux

I have found the above solution in the ubuntu forums so you may want to check there also