16.04 LTS install issues

[wolfman]

Hi @Mark,

how did you create your boot media and did you follow this advice?:

Burn ISO's at the slowest possible speed

Hi all, as the title suggests, some and/or many problems with your installation can be avoided by burning the ISO file at the "SLOWEST POSSIBLE SPEED", most if not all burner apps will automatically choose the fastest speed available for your disk burner drive so it is important before you commit to burn a CD/DVD that you select the menu tab which controls the burn speed and select the lowest number on offer. Your burner drive may well support a burn speed of 20 X for DVD and 60 X for CD's a…

When you boot and you see this symbol, press any key to enter the menu, press F3 for keyboard and then F6 for boot parameters:

Try "acpi=off"?.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions