To the boot options line does NOT allow you to successfully install Ubuntu on your Mini-Note, here are the steps that I followed to get it to work. So, for anyone who finds that adding xforcevesa Luckily, I found a blog post that laid out the basics of what I needed to do: get the alternate Ubuntu installer image, install it, boot into recovery mode, drop to a root shell, and compile and install the latest OpenChrome snapshot. Clearly, the graphics driver wasn’t working. When I tried the usual fix, it spat out a psychedelic array of colors and symbols, like a thing possessed. The machine that I got back from HP last week was different. The first and second main boards of my Mini-Note allowed you to make a very simple addition to the boot options line when you boot the normal Ubuntu image CD. My point is to explain how to install Ubuntu 8.10 on the HP 2133 Mini-Note. However, I’m not writing this post to complain about the quality of my HP hardware. I bought it in May of 2008, and during the 9 months since then, it has needed to have its main board (HP-speak for motherboard?) replaced twice. I hate it because it is constantly breaking. I love it because it is small and light – it’s a netbook, and weighs less than 3 pounds, including the battery and AC adapter. The tale of my HP 2133 Mini-Note is long and frustrating.
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