Blank Screen after Grub

[itsjustarumour]

@Quixote - thanks for the help. I feel I'm half way there...

First, "linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sd01 ro" looks like a typo. Shouldn't that be /dev/sda1?

Perhaps! I was a bit confused by the instructions as to what X and Y should be (I was thinking X was a 0 and Y was a 1, hence XY should be "01" ... but I guess thats me just getting confused - so (hd0,1) needs to be replaced with sda1 for this bit?

Also, make sure it really does point to your vmlinuz file. You can use ls to check:

ls (hd0,1)/boot

If it's not there, it may be in the root directory up one level:

ls (hd0,1)/

If so, the linux line should read:

linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro

Hope that works!

ls (hd0,1)/boot gives me:

grub/ memtest86+.bin vmlinuz-2.6.31-19-generic config-2.6.31-19-generic abi-2.6.31-19-generic System.map-2.6.31-19-generic vmcoreinfo-2.6.31-19-generic in itrd.img-2.6.31-19-generic

- is that right?

ls (hd0,1)/ gives me:

lost+found/ var/ etc/ media/ cdrom bin/ boot/ dev/ home/ lib/ mnt/ opt/ proc/ root/ sbin/ selinux/ srv/ sys/ tmp/ usr/ vmlinuz initrd.img

[itsjustarumour]

Aha, I think I'm getting somewhere!

linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro

is of course the one I need...

[itsjustarumour]

Quixote, you're the man! =D>=D>=D> You led the way sir, and for that I am very grateful.

Just to re-cap for anyone else who gets this problem:

The how-to at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...0Rescue%20Mode recommends the following commands:

set root=(hdX,Y)
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdXY ro
initrd /boot/initrd
boot

Due to the relevant files actually being up one level in the root directory, the commands I actually had to put in to fix this (one line at a time) were:

set root=(hd0,1)
linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro
initrd /initrd.img
boot

Thanks again!

[Tigerboy2]

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!! i can confirm that that itsjustarumour's method worked for me aswell. thankyou VERY much itsjustarumour and quixote!!

[itsjustarumour]

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!! i can confirm that that itsjustarumour's method worked for me aswell. thankyou VERY much itsjustarumour and quixote!!

@Tigerboy2 - glad you got it sorted!

[quixote]

Glad it worked! There's a way to do everything in unix / linux / ubuntu. The trick is finding out how ... Thank the Ubuntu docs, not me .

By the way, Tigerboy2, as the original poster you can mark the thread "solved" (it's a dropdown at "Thread Tools") which helps other people with a similar problem.