Yeah, but just doing a hard shut down via the power button doesn't help either. When you turn it off and turn it back, it goes to the same hanging black screen and flashing lights.
thermal...
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Yeah, but just doing a hard shut down via the power button doesn't help either. When you turn it off and turn it back, it goes to the same hanging black screen and flashing lights.
thermal...
Also having the same issue. When i open my laptop, i get a black screen with a blinking caps lock light. the only thing that "fixes it" so far is covering the vents and essentially letting it run hot...
i am having the exact same issue on 13.10. the only way to fix it is to cover all of my vents, and leave the laptop running until it cuts itself off and "fixes itself."
simply restarting my...
the updates and upgrades went flawlessly!
(call me crazy, but i think my computer runs better now after all the tinkering than it did previously lol)
thank you again, and i'll be sure to pass it...
YES!!!!!!!
Generating grub.cfg ...Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-12-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Found...
okay! the first part went smoothly, without error.
then, i restarted back into the ubuntu install > try ubuntu and typed
sudo update-grub
i got this:
/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error:...
hmm, EFI rang a bell. i remember why. when i entered the command "sudo fdisk -lu" it yielded this:
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders,...
hmm...that is odd. i never realized it before. all i remember is when i first unstalled ubuntu alongside win7 a few years back i split the harddrive into 2. one half for linux and one half for win7....
sudo parted -l yields this:
Model: ATA SAMSUNG HM641JI (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 640GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type ...
Okay!! i'm back. after trying other methods, without avail, to recreate the bootable disk via my chromebook, i finally decided to just dd the file. voila, worked like a charm. i should have done that...
Okay, I did what you said and replaced everything after quiet splas with "text", sans quotes. Pressing ctrl-x did nothing, but pressing enter did. After I pressed enter, the screen went black and...
Yes, that's it!
If this helps any, i edited the boot options in the photo above and took out the "silent splash --" bit from the end so i could get a more detailed reading of what's going on when...
When botting from the USB stick, here's what happens:
HP screen. > Black screen. > Purple screen. > Black screen. > Ubuntu loading screen > Black kernel panic screen
The only other screen i...
Hi, Bashing-om!! I appreciate your help and patience.
That's the thing, i can't figure out how to activate a terminal. I have tried all of the options on this screen:
...
Thanks for your response!
I tried what you said and It keeps telling me "Unknown command." :/
Firstly, I own an HP dv6 that I've been smoothly dual booting win7 and Ubuntu for years without issue. Until now.
Okay, I decided to do a clean install of 13.10 (coming from 13.04) and do so via...
Never mind, found it.
For anyone else wondering:
.local/share/themes
Does anyone know where the shall themes you installed directly from Gnome Tweak Tool are located? I'm talking about the ones you install from the program. I already know about .themes and...
same problem here, except i'm on gnome.
any ideas???
Chrome user here, and it just randomly started happening a few weeks ago. My screen will all of a sudden go black, then it takes me to my log in screen.
I log in, get a box that pops up saying an...
forget it. hours of googling & i fixed it myself.
i don't have any cds and i cant find an iso file for a usb stick.
there's no way to reinstall 12.04 from inside 12.04? i'm already using 12.04 right now, but have to do everything via terminal...
how do i "try the distro" first? O.o
i was told in the precise pangolin threads that since no one could figure out what was wrong, i had to do a fresh install.
i don't want to do that, because i don't want to erase all of my stuff....