wont boot correctly

[boregard]

hi all , after reinstalling precise i cant restart computer from the shutdown menu. when i select restart all i get is a black screen and have do hard shutdown a couple of times to get computer to boot. any help with this will be much appreciated. thanks

[boregard]

i found more info that might be helpful.

[Redblade20XX]

I assume that since you'll recently reinstalled you don't have a lot of personal data on the system.

So why don't you reinstall the system, format the entire drive and create new partitions? It's much quicker than realigning the partitions with much less headache.

- Red

[boregard]

I assume that since you'll recently reinstalled you don't have a lot of personal data on the system.

So why don't you reinstall the system, format the entire drive and create new partitions? It's much quicker than realigning the partitions with much less headache.

- Red

i have reinstalled, but don't know how i should create new partitions. thanks

[oldfred]

It looks like you have an UEFI system as first partition is efi and drive is partitioned with gpt not the old MBR(msdos).

You can still use gparted with gpt drives. One advantage of gpt is all partitions are primary.

MBR details including 2TiB limit and GPT link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record

GPT Advantages srs5694:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1457901
GPT or MBR
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1625285

If it is not shuting down, you do need to remember the elephants to make sure everything is closed correctly. Not sure why it may not be shutting down correctly.

Holding down Alt and SysRq (which is the Print Screen key) while slowly typing REISUB
R-E-I-S-U-B to force shutdown
A good way to remember it is.
Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring ...or
Reboot System Even If Ultimately Broken ...LOL.
http://kember.net/articles/reisub-th...linux-restart/

[boregard]

i used gparted advance partition feature and selected gpt. its working now. thanks to everyone for your help. regards