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nivarp
February 2nd, 2009, 06:38 PM
Hi,

I have a toshiba Portege 4010. I was running a previous version of ubuntu 8.04.1 and tried upgrading which hangs on splash screen after it rebooted, but boots and works fine on the previous kernel 2.16.20-16. So I stuck in a new hdd and installed the latest version of ubuntu 8.10 which installed fine, but when it reboots, it hangs again on the splash screen. Tried recovery mode and it hangs at:

[ 30.340268] cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:

Anybody have an idea of what it could be. I did a memtest and that passed fine.

Thanks
nivarp
nivarp
February 2nd, 2009, 07:47 PM
Try to install the GRUB again. if you still get the splash screen then try this,


Highlight Ubuntu title in boot Menu ( GRUB ) using up/down arrow keys and press e. Select kernel line and press e again. Delete quiet and splash words. Hit enter key and b.

Highlight Ubuntu title -- e --- select kernel line --- e --- delete quiet splash --- hit Enter key --- b.

I tried what you said and still get the same thing :(
icanfly0307
February 2nd, 2009, 07:53 PM
How much RAM do you have? Have you tried waiting for a while to see if boots normally a few minutes later? I had the same problem except that I got a different message. I had to wait 4 minutes until the boot continued normally...
nivarp
February 2nd, 2009, 07:56 PM
How much RAM do you have? Have you tried waiting for a while to see if boots normally a few minutes later? I had the same problem except that I got a different message. I had to wait 4 minutes until the boot continued normally...

I've got 751mb of RAM installed. I've also left it for an hour or so to see if it boots, but it doesn't.
icanfly0307
February 2nd, 2009, 07:59 PM
Do you have any types of external or internal flash cards? Maybe like SD or Sony MemoryStick Pro? They hang up the boot sometimes.
nivarp
February 2nd, 2009, 08:12 PM
Do you have any types of external or internal flash cards? Maybe like SD or Sony MemoryStick Pro? They hang up the boot sometimes.

Only card I had in there was a 3com 56k pcmcia modem, which I haven't used in years and completely forgot about. Took that out and it booted fine. I guess that was causing the problem. Thanks for the advise, I would never have thought of it!

Thanks
nivarp
icanfly0307
February 2nd, 2009, 08:13 PM
Glad to know I could help. :D