Background: I have a Dell Inspiron m5010 that was running Ubuntu 10.4 without issue. I decided to wait until after the fall semester was over to attempt an upgrade because I was taking blah blah blah ++ and didn't wait to screw up my blah blah blah.
So here's what I did. With my working 10.04 system, I upgraded to 10.10. It wouldn't boot, so I chose to boot into recovery mode. From there I upgraded to 11.04... Again it failed to boot, so again I chose to boot into recovery mode and again I upgraded to 11.10. Now here I am again with a system that doesn't boot.
What I have tried so far: Booting with acpi=off, Booting with noacpi, booting with both acpi=off and noacpi. I have tried replacing the grub options "quiet splash vt.handoff=7" with "--verbose single," then at the CLI entering "sudo apt-get update," "sudo apt-get install fglrx," and rebooting, but no luck so far.
I need help! no way my system is usable with 10.04 but impossible to run 11.10. Please tell me what files to provide and I'll do my best to paste them, but without a working system it will be hard.
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