Last night I decided to reinstall my Old Dell X300 Laptop. It was ages since I had touched it and was only curious to see how it would run with Ubuntu 11.04.

Installing Ubuntu went like a charm as I expected. All hardware and every device was detected and everything played flawless now the X300 is quite old so there’s no change I would be able to run Unity which was fine by me.

Initial reboot went fine. Ubuntu confirmed what I already knew, that I would not be able to run Unity, and everything was nice and dandy in Ubuntu land up until the second reboot where I got…

Black Splash Screen Of Death

Now since the initial reboot went fine I was a bit confused what was going on here. I mean the installation had told me that I should set the environment to start up in classic mode. Which I had done before the second reboot.

Now I didn’t have any other OS on the X300 so I had no means on getting my hands on the system as such. I knew what I had to do though. I needed to disable acpi on the splash screen.

So I ended up reinstalling Ubuntu 11.04 and this time before I bootet the second time I adjusted the following.

And rebuilt grub