Live CD from Linux Forum won't boot solved

[tomk@hawks]

Hi, I am a total newbie, decided on Linux Mint because it looked good in the magazine.
Using the DVD from the mag, the boot process starts but seems to hang at a Busybox command line. In particular, it stops with the line (initramfs) on the screen. There is a cursor blinking but nothing happens. Where to from here?

My box is Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz, NVidia graphics card (GeForce 4 MX?). It has Windows XP with 728MB RAM.

Thanks,

Want to get started but first hurdle came really quickly,

Tom

[Husse]

I'm almost out of time so very short answer follows
Try "Safe graphics mode" and if that does not help the wiki may help you
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... ur_Live_CD
I have a nvidia Gf4mx and it works

[tomk@hawks]

Thanks Husse. I got things working in the end and I am really enjoying LInuxmint. It has been a good introduction to Linux. I used basic graphic options to get things started and then used "Envy" to install the nvidia driver. All worked well. Thanks for your reply anyway.

Tom