Fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 won't boot on Asus X101CH Eee PC

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Published on 2012-10-20T20:19:56Z Indexed on 2012/10/23 11:20 UTC
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I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 in my Asus X101CH Eee PC, using a live usb which I made using startup disk creator, replacing Ubuntu 12.04. The installation ran smoothly, but when I boot, it goes to a purple screen for a second, then a lot of text like the following shows up in sequence:

Starting crash report submission daemon                        [OK]
Starting CPU interrupts balancing daemon                       [OK]
Stopping save kernel messages                                  [OK]
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And the cursor just keeps blinking for hours. I can't log in. Pressing Alt + F2 did not bring me to console mode.

I thought it might be a partition problem so I formatted the whole disk, by creating a new partition table using gparted in Ubuntu 12.04 live USB. I noticed that I can't try Ubuntu using 12.10 live USB either; it just went to a blank screen when I hit the 'try ubuntu' button.

But the same problem arose. I even changed the pen drive for the live USB a couple of times.

I happened to know that the Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail CPU in my computer is not well supported in Linux, I managed to install its drivers in Ubuntu 12.04, although the computer went blank during the installation.

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