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Thanks for taking the time to provide such a thorough response, Fu. It has been appreciated.

Thanks for all the replies.

TheFu, I am booting with BIOS.

Dennis N, yes, there would only be one OS on the disk. I have been formatting disks for Ubuntu/installing Ubuntu since 6.06 and have...

Hi mxp9mm.

I usually can't reply to any posts as I do not have ANY knowledge on these matters, however, I had a similar question just recently and found some very clear, easy to follow...

Hi all.

As posted in another thread, I have had all kinds of problems trying to install Ubuntu and have now given up for the moment. I decided to install an OS not based on Ubuntu/Debian and the...

Thank, Dennin N. Yes, I have come across that webpage before. I did vaguely recall that I had read something to do with making something writable, but wouldn't have known where I had read it as I...

Thanks for your suggestion, Dennis N.

I followed your instructions and got the following errors:

Unable to create directory /root/ local/share/nano/: no such file or directory.
It is required...

I have now tried installing Lubuntu but get the exact same problem, i.e. stuck at the Ubuntu screen with the dots (blue instead of purple, this time).

I have now also tried installing Zorin, but...

I get the following when I tried sudo nano -B /etc/grub at the GRUB screen and in recovery mode.

GRUB screen:

Can't find command 'sudo'

If I leave out sudo, I get@
Can't find 'nano'
...

Thanks for your comments, Dennis N.

I'm not using 10.04 out of choice! It is beyond annoying now that many websites cannot be viewed properly and a lot now cannot even load at all...

Thanks for the explanation, oldfred.

As planned, I have started working through the giant sticky and the following is where I've got to so far.

The sticky asks, Are you having these...

Hi oldfred.

Well I hadn't planned on having a separate /boot partition but read at the page linked to before that "Some computers can't see boot files (/boot) if located far (>100GB) from the...

Sorry, oldfred, I misunderstood the information I came across regarding the 1 or 2Mb partition. I thought it was for bootloader/grub files or something.

Anyway, thanks for pointing that out.
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Thanks for your reply and advice, oldfred, I appreciate it!

I just posted here first in case anyone spotted something in the text I posted that could help. I will go through the various steps...

Hi all.

I have been stuck with Ubuntu 10.04 (12.04 on another drive) on my main pc for several years due to not being able to install the recent software. My last attempt was over a year ago;...

Update. Managed to partially solve the issue by deleting all the partitions and creating the first boot partition as empty instead of ext4. This did the trick, along with setting it as a BIOS Boot...

Hi all.

I have just installed Ubuntu 18.04, however, it won't boot and I think it could be the way I have prepared the hard drive as I am not very knowledgeable on that subject, like most Ubuntu...

Hi all.

I never got to the bottom of this issue and I've been putting up with the symptoms all this time. The latest behaviour (for the past few months) is when the PC is turned on, the monitor...

STRANGE UPDATE.

As the issue was happening even before the BIOS/splash screen, as you said, it can't be the OS or HD, HOWEVER, the resolution on my second Ubuntu drive seems normal. How can I be...

Thanks for your reply, because7892.

Thanks for the advice everyone. Will post back if I find the problem.

Hi All.

I have learnt that the load failsafe defaults have been set permanently, which is good!

Even though the monitor stayed on for 2 or 3 hours (before I shut down), it was flickering at...

Temujin, really sorry, I somehow missed your request both times! I just looked back in the thread an noticed them. I'm going to put this down to trying to look at the replies as fast as I can and...

OK thanks Autodave.

Thanks for your reply, Temujin.

I have now tried RAMs 3 and 4 in slots 1 and 2. I had previosuly tried RAMs 1 and 2 in slots 1 and 2, but this hasn't worked either. If a BIOS flash isn't the...

OK, thanks. Will re-try.

In the meantime, latest symptoms are, IF the splash screen appears in full (without technicolour/black banding), screen goes blank before login. Monitor has to be turned...

Thanks for the replies.

Can't type much details; have barely managed to get this far after SEVERAL restarts! It cuts out in about five seconds after logging in at present.

Anyway, have tried...